tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4742676453944337192024-03-15T18:09:30.785-07:00Tails of TeachingTails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-66584777009344607232022-08-22T09:02:00.005-07:002022-08-22T09:06:13.537-07:003 Reasons Graphic Organizers for Writing are the Secret Sauce to Writing Block Bliss<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJThvO0rrgCnHeDLWf_z3WeDGr8zI-bIF6ZbU97lAAakXf2ybxaUPG5ZRPWADm1FGKJF2ojkfviJGuHyvfPbo7EJlayHW1llJYEEQXFxtWD5-hpxNqtO5_1yXcIfpDI3CjgA3s3x9gjBWP6XIYEM1IJYPVZHdi24XMvjkMcQR2vKfj-l9ZxfyWxVKE5g/s1500/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="graphic-organizers-for-writing" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJThvO0rrgCnHeDLWf_z3WeDGr8zI-bIF6ZbU97lAAakXf2ybxaUPG5ZRPWADm1FGKJF2ojkfviJGuHyvfPbo7EJlayHW1llJYEEQXFxtWD5-hpxNqtO5_1yXcIfpDI3CjgA3s3x9gjBWP6XIYEM1IJYPVZHdi24XMvjkMcQR2vKfj-l9ZxfyWxVKE5g/w426-h640/1.png" title="graphic-organizers-for-writing" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61e1154e-7fff-5a10-6ddf-9ab925fe62ea"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-accf918c-7fff-e15c-ca45-8b0bd45736d6"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">What is the one sound that you do not want to hear during
your writers’ workshop? The sound of nothing. During a writers’ workshop, we
want to hear our students' pencils dashing back and forth to fill their pages
with their ideas. At writers’ workshop time we want to hear students flipping
another page to continue writing and sharing their thoughts on paper. What we
teachers do not want to hear during a writers’ workshop block, is the sound of
nothing. If no pencils are moving and no pages are flipping, then no writing is
happening. So why does this happen so often during our writers’ workshop
blocks? There are many reasons that students may not be writing at writing
time. From reluctant writers to good old fashion writer's block, there are many
reasons our students can struggle to put pencil to paper during writers’
workshops. However, these reasons can all be resolved with one teaching
strategy that saved my writers’ workshop many years ago, using graphic
organizers for writing. The year I started using graphic organizers for writing
was the year that everything changed in my writers’ workshop. Room 204 went
from a silent writers’ workshop to one filled with the sounds of scribbling
pencils and pages turning to add more ideas. Want to learn how I implemented
graphic organizers for writing with my students? Read more to learn my top
three reasons why graphic organizers for writing are the secret sauce to
writing block bliss!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e574171b-7fff-595b-4239-9b28c251987f"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHAd0EOeOgDfm7BE8X5ioomay78wY0pvih0H0KRXYS06PmKc7deofxuSXEfxDSG15bEl2WurpLJp14YiTZZCngNejQKHV62ywS9kaE2YrmytvmuYqQnxn_NnaGgw6jClrmALPkDlBOcXVsBBftRXtEPf9vkdBW5E3MWw_Wt-CQvFKIgw11bkh9N0Bauw/s1500/4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="graphic-organizers-for-writing" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHAd0EOeOgDfm7BE8X5ioomay78wY0pvih0H0KRXYS06PmKc7deofxuSXEfxDSG15bEl2WurpLJp14YiTZZCngNejQKHV62ywS9kaE2YrmytvmuYqQnxn_NnaGgw6jClrmALPkDlBOcXVsBBftRXtEPf9vkdBW5E3MWw_Wt-CQvFKIgw11bkh9N0Bauw/w426-h640/4.png" title="graphic-organizers-for-writing" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The thinking in my school community during my first few years of teaching was that graphic organizers for writing were used only as a differentiation tool for below-benchmark students. This is a fine idea, however, I am in the camp of providing differentiation tools and support to all the learners in my classroom. So, I began using graphic organizers for writing in my writers’ workshop mini-lessons and independent practice times. The difference was amazing! Students at all benchmark levels were producing higher-quality writing pieces and moving through the writing process with more ease! Let’s explore why providing all students with graphic organizers for writing was and continues to be such a game changer. Want to learn more about setting up your best writers workshop ever? <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2022/07/3-tips-to-launching-your-best-writers.html">CLICK HERE</a> to read my blog post now!</span></p><br /><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #1 in my 3 Reasons Graphic Organizers for Writing are the Secret Sauce to Writing Block Bliss: Organizational Skills</span></h1><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJfRVDPSz_QERLr-EIgptcyW7G5Z_kCGSyDY2tCAvvctRZBGzTHEWHzuVgR60ry_2Ih0BCxQNFxGBdgPWrPNZRPsA6RTE2NioO-ap-ijVbjEjyJxgFrfKaXj0Uc3BUOZuGUy2f6-UO2b8iVt5qjU0VHApJDG8joHzXGGCajPtdSUUP3HMQWum3JgA31w/s1500/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="graphic-organizers-for-writing" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJfRVDPSz_QERLr-EIgptcyW7G5Z_kCGSyDY2tCAvvctRZBGzTHEWHzuVgR60ry_2Ih0BCxQNFxGBdgPWrPNZRPsA6RTE2NioO-ap-ijVbjEjyJxgFrfKaXj0Uc3BUOZuGUy2f6-UO2b8iVt5qjU0VHApJDG8joHzXGGCajPtdSUUP3HMQWum3JgA31w/w426-h640/2.png" title="graphic-organizers-for-writing" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many elementary students struggle with organizational skills. We see this in the crumpled papers spilling out of the backpacks and the missing assignment hiding in the deep trenches of their desks. So it’s easy to imagine that their organizational struggles would carry over into their academic work as well. Crafting and producing a well-organized piece of writing is a challenging skill. Graphic organizers for writing help students organize their thinking. Learners at all levels benefit from the support that graphic organizers for writing provide because it helps to clarify their ideas and where those ideas belong in their story. Once students have clarity in the organization of their writing piece, they feel successful and want to elaborate and expand their writing. This one simple change of teaching with and providing graphic organizers for writing to all students helps them stay organized and produce clear higher quality work. Looking for more tips on how to help your students have organizational success in writing this year? <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2022/06/the-5-best-tips-for-setting-up-your.html">CLICK HERE </a>to read my blog post about the best way to set up your writer's notebooks now. </span></p><br /><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #2 in my 3 Reasons Graphic Organizers for Writing are the Secret Sauce to Writing Block Bliss: Helping Reluctant Writers</span></h1><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrgzT_y6lS6Zsd6Aw028-V2fIM4Da-wi1Zxfsl8vjkXVb_UFrfvMlNQEbwjCUUuRKkPrI-rmF9oy4InmTPqWIJvOqdKTMBLnf2XJPo7qbptsRfxuAKSdLXkw7w8_K2QQOxl_tMjp0NCZJHjqittqCdk5teLC8KD1xPpARp2bd6_y0Q88QWsZNvr_U-Q/s1500/5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers'-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrgzT_y6lS6Zsd6Aw028-V2fIM4Da-wi1Zxfsl8vjkXVb_UFrfvMlNQEbwjCUUuRKkPrI-rmF9oy4InmTPqWIJvOqdKTMBLnf2XJPo7qbptsRfxuAKSdLXkw7w8_K2QQOxl_tMjp0NCZJHjqittqCdk5teLC8KD1xPpARp2bd6_y0Q88QWsZNvr_U-Q/w426-h640/5.png" title="writers'-workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the main reasons that students become reluctant writers is because the task of writing is completely overwhelming. Staring at a blank piece of paper is intimidating to many learners. Graphic organizers for writing take the intimidation factor down and the engagement factor up. Our students are children, after all, they should be excited to share their thoughts and ideas, and having visually appealing writing paper (graphic organizers for writing) is just the ticket! When students see the task of writing a conclusion broken down into small boxes or doodles with explanations the giant task is suddenly more manageable. The overwhelming expectation is suddenly doable and students will rise to the occasion now that they have the proper tools. For this reason, graphic organizers for writing will always be my go-to writing tool to help reluctant writers.</span></p><br /><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #3 in my 3 Reasons Graphic Organizers for Writing are the Secret Sauce to Writing Block Bliss: Dive Deep and Improve Those Skills!</span></h1><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BQxglDXqMDFzF2rdxF77wNafWqs6vCfibBIlm7aV4FWUZYyzmt_m5v_YPC7Q7R5dXZNTWyhPsZwE4chYiREeZC7R-07a-t08EdQw3tKHEiFxTUxmeblSVmRYxDHkMJmtt7Wd7aXq_n31qOUEhI7vgqxSAEFBps_bdAmLdgQsMJYsoS4Cyc8-l2bUdw/s1500/3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="graphic-organizers-for-writing" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BQxglDXqMDFzF2rdxF77wNafWqs6vCfibBIlm7aV4FWUZYyzmt_m5v_YPC7Q7R5dXZNTWyhPsZwE4chYiREeZC7R-07a-t08EdQw3tKHEiFxTUxmeblSVmRYxDHkMJmtt7Wd7aXq_n31qOUEhI7vgqxSAEFBps_bdAmLdgQsMJYsoS4Cyc8-l2bUdw/w426-h640/3.png" title="graphic-organizers-for-writing" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A common misconception is that graphic organizers for writing should only be used for reluctant writers and below-benchmark students. Graphic organizers for writing should be used for all levels of learners! Graphic organizers for writing provide amazing opportunities for students to dive deep and improve their skills. For example, you may have students who are capable of writing a story introduction, however, those skills can always be improved. Why not take our students from good writers to great writers? Take that skill of writing an introduction and break it down into bite-sized pieces. Use your graphic organizers for writing to hone in on each component of a strong introduction and make those components the best they can be. When we use graphic organizers for writing with all of our students, we have the tools to break down the writing process into smaller chunks and writing skills. This allows us to deep dive into specific writing skills and vastly improve the quality of our students' writing. Looking to explore the graphic organizers for writing that I use in my writers’ workshop? Click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-notebook-MEGA-bundle-Writers-notebooks-Opinion-Narrative-Fiction-8202466">HERE</a> to explore them now!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you ready to get rocking, rolling, and writing with your own writers’ workshop? Then be sure to download my writing workshop checklist and launch your best writers’ workshop now! <a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1">CLICK HERE</a> to download.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/s3000/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/w640-h360/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" title="writing-workshop" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj272X4sunIvMRTwRZq9RkON9xb0JEPy2H1DoaAqrHtVOucgmU0rHGuiVoT3Kdx_74QHz_I02nAnWY7x7EmFaqyHzKjWcFfRJKLVelYuFC3_iAKQHVT2w71WG1A7rxOpUxgO3H1b7GKBQYIDKR7S8JzLdeJA8BTxh4RlQS4O2l9YC5XpKQNTJfnW8jMfg/w640-h128/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-35107541910633304452022-08-01T10:39:00.001-07:002022-08-01T10:39:16.622-07:00How to Improve Reading Comprehension with Readers Response Journals Right Now<h1 style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIK1T-5GD5fny43-zVWfNZr-Nmfx1SefxbKQoURp0gB3Hf_Rw2Qh_FFurkkblRH0VvSLWgE1F1yFF12J7sDdaeLt6G_oTejOfPeqv-2Xn9U_9EDJd37R33XUynWLhrXuFYlqUYEH4ID_8x_P8dPXlzMJTcFXShGVi7zPLMBCrRFnl97T-6SLlLoEG3Xw/s1500/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="how-to-improve-reading-comprehension" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIK1T-5GD5fny43-zVWfNZr-Nmfx1SefxbKQoURp0gB3Hf_Rw2Qh_FFurkkblRH0VvSLWgE1F1yFF12J7sDdaeLt6G_oTejOfPeqv-2Xn9U_9EDJd37R33XUynWLhrXuFYlqUYEH4ID_8x_P8dPXlzMJTcFXShGVi7zPLMBCrRFnl97T-6SLlLoEG3Xw/w426-h640/1.png" title="how-to-improve-reading-comprehension" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to Improve Reading Comprehension with Reader's Response Journals Right Now: What is Reading Comprehension?</span></h1><span id="docs-internal-guid-8b7a5497-7fff-6f12-b21b-024bd2e7d9bb"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before we can answer the question of how to improve reading comprehension: let’s first discuss what reading comprehension is. Reading comprehension is the ability of the reader to understand and interpret the text that they are reading. In order to comprehend a text, our students must be having intentional interactions with the text. Simply put, in order for our students to understand (comprehend) what they are reading we must make sure they are reading a level-appropriate text and taking their time to read with purpose and meaning.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TxR9YW8NLt_CX7KXBcPHjmca2bPPx1kX8vRODgniEBCy_t5c7ZqRsF24znK0KGusnfFWjEFm1UAU6VqCykx-kLbjBsxk3aoUX6zhcNfvEw4zR-UNFV1e5TghM935kP9cOiUUkaJwk9m5XNuJ1-f3_p5ZJCtuZpTpQJGcd1-rlX7n_Q5-40grg_hMkA/s1500/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="how-to-improve-reading-comprehension" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TxR9YW8NLt_CX7KXBcPHjmca2bPPx1kX8vRODgniEBCy_t5c7ZqRsF24znK0KGusnfFWjEFm1UAU6VqCykx-kLbjBsxk3aoUX6zhcNfvEw4zR-UNFV1e5TghM935kP9cOiUUkaJwk9m5XNuJ1-f3_p5ZJCtuZpTpQJGcd1-rlX7n_Q5-40grg_hMkA/w426-h640/4.png" title="how-to-improve-reading-comprehension" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to Improve Reading Comprehension with Reader's Response Journals Right Now: Use Reader's Response Journals</span></h1><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that we have established that intentional interactions with stories are crucial for answering our question, of how to improve reading comprehension, we have a new question to answer. How can we teach our students to read with purpose and intention? The answer is actually simpler than you might think, reader's response journals. Reader's response journals and notebooks are a place where students will reflect and respond to what they are reading in their text. This can happen in the form of prompted questions about character traits or graphic organizers about the story plot. There are many ways to set up and create reader's response notebooks (you can read my top tips for creating reader's response entries by <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2022/07/the-3-top-tips-for-teaching-strong.html">CLICKING HERE NOW</a>). Whether you use prompts or graphic organizers, the result is the same, reader's response journals cause our students to pause and think about their reading. When we ask our learners to stop and reflect on what they have been reading, it gives their minds a moment to digest the text and aids their understanding and reading comprehension. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUJ9_c3gQuTaJ1UJijiFGJTAiYHlgP9bzxnyC9RS2OZfaNLFgbxiqUWq7qRaygyJGV50g3RYK7MwUaPTWATPmX08XuIFLD_6mrHJ67zjYxee7Kf7suAMFd_9_NhADai_52nB6UYJ9n-p8LuVgCnEkFmDWl8_9ZoWMMzDt9DISwD9-UljmV_tsDaZsjCg/s1500/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="how-to-improve-reading-comprehension" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUJ9_c3gQuTaJ1UJijiFGJTAiYHlgP9bzxnyC9RS2OZfaNLFgbxiqUWq7qRaygyJGV50g3RYK7MwUaPTWATPmX08XuIFLD_6mrHJ67zjYxee7Kf7suAMFd_9_NhADai_52nB6UYJ9n-p8LuVgCnEkFmDWl8_9ZoWMMzDt9DISwD9-UljmV_tsDaZsjCg/w426-h640/3.png" title="how-to-improve-reading-comprehension" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another reason that I love using reader's response journals to boost reading comprehension is to deepen character understanding. When we ask students to write and respond to questions about the characters in their texts, we promote deep thinking and pondering about our characters. Why do they do what they do? Why do they dress the way that they dress or behave the way that they do? When students have to write a reading response entry on a character in their story, they have to get to know them better to clearly develop, write, and share their thoughts about the character. This leads to increased student reading comprehension!</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The final answer to our question, how to improve reading comprehension with reading response journals is increased memory. One reason that many students struggle with reading comprehension is that they are unable to remember events and important tidbits that previously happened in their text. If you don’t remember where you were, how can you understand where you are now? Let's look at an example. My text briefly discussed the childhood importance of my character's locket necklace and the events that unfolded around her receiving that necklace. If I did not pause to mentally log the importance of this as I was reading, how can I develop a deep understanding of my character's changes and transformations throughout the storyline? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_7ydJqnFX9dnWksrnNkUekWT-emIiPfG2WGDh32JTFubQ_2BCswSAE6Y5iYd1S3h_XB7-4dHcGVtas4Yx8n1DWtNExRX3u4ZOCLzEAkV6RdQRJ-FcADUfFG9aFargcIowt3_SjemsxC_fQ4Vt3zXBITe9p13IFyamcMrMtTt8kkqUF8_zFOBK1UhnQ/s1500/5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="readers-response" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_7ydJqnFX9dnWksrnNkUekWT-emIiPfG2WGDh32JTFubQ_2BCswSAE6Y5iYd1S3h_XB7-4dHcGVtas4Yx8n1DWtNExRX3u4ZOCLzEAkV6RdQRJ-FcADUfFG9aFargcIowt3_SjemsxC_fQ4Vt3zXBITe9p13IFyamcMrMtTt8kkqUF8_zFOBK1UhnQ/w426-h640/5.png" title="readers-response" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can all agree that pausing and reading with purpose is crucial for increasing student reading comprehension, but how can we be sure our students are slowing down to remember important events from their text? With reader's response journals. The key here is having our students write about their reading. The act of physically writing something down increases the sensory information that is sent to the brain. This increased sensory information gives our hippocampus an increased likelihood of storing the information for a longer period of time. Technical talk aside friends, if we want to increase our students' reading comprehension skills, we have got to get them to write about their reading in a reading response notebook. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gEsqhwEkRKrAscIWTTDBznuFObCgFRK9OQd36JWCTXNaC3xlYM0c17epqRXNankAZIwjVrjbO7HhxDjok31aQCZC7XYAEq12TvyJlCnOx24mIkKC09RS9HcjgGboasWGmLX50yLYj4Rc_h5lOJY5D_0gFncGiwaEaykmUh-095_6AV1FvYZtli60eQ/s1500/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="readers-response" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gEsqhwEkRKrAscIWTTDBznuFObCgFRK9OQd36JWCTXNaC3xlYM0c17epqRXNankAZIwjVrjbO7HhxDjok31aQCZC7XYAEq12TvyJlCnOx24mIkKC09RS9HcjgGboasWGmLX50yLYj4Rc_h5lOJY5D_0gFncGiwaEaykmUh-095_6AV1FvYZtli60eQ/w426-h640/2.png" title="readers-response" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you ready to start using reader’s response journals with your students? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Response-Journal-Reading-response-notebook-Readers-notebook-8252231">CLICK HERE</a> to explore my favorite reader’s response journals now!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7LbSJuHahINIV5zdiLrd1nfeWYwaUOEHXn-3QqbdEHfC9_dERPmgCQPPjHfeWE6ntWP41s3WNCDNdLsTASd9L1LZh7shYSuGJDi5N8PfdT3FpN5qF95psv1Nj-FHVJWmmzpHMQuPQcevn00JDBha5lAXnVUgIq9HLhhQv8uN5vCASGUJB2Uy8Rtn1w/s2700/readers-response-notebook-cover%20pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="readers-response" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7LbSJuHahINIV5zdiLrd1nfeWYwaUOEHXn-3QqbdEHfC9_dERPmgCQPPjHfeWE6ntWP41s3WNCDNdLsTASd9L1LZh7shYSuGJDi5N8PfdT3FpN5qF95psv1Nj-FHVJWmmzpHMQuPQcevn00JDBha5lAXnVUgIq9HLhhQv8uN5vCASGUJB2Uy8Rtn1w/w400-h400/readers-response-notebook-cover%20pic.jpg" title="readers-response" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-11487437496327087402022-07-25T11:34:00.000-07:002022-07-25T11:34:05.327-07:003 Tips to Make Spelling and Grammar Practice Fun in Your Classroom <p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJr5MxyP2Pf5ZA8KxXwKRX1XBG8j1APJZKS8zlEZkI45XeUrSAbkngLl7ustz-LU1m0XmL2HbbSG3SYeHKopX2wMbI9ZMuewBlSM_hTR722o8o2D84vArqGaTliOSmlBr7cJhMu6jIQHf0YD0JfsQCvfkiIm8qNyPBue2Bjr31I8RIxs-rgv_2uYdHOQ/s1500/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="spelling-and-grammar" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJr5MxyP2Pf5ZA8KxXwKRX1XBG8j1APJZKS8zlEZkI45XeUrSAbkngLl7ustz-LU1m0XmL2HbbSG3SYeHKopX2wMbI9ZMuewBlSM_hTR722o8o2D84vArqGaTliOSmlBr7cJhMu6jIQHf0YD0JfsQCvfkiIm8qNyPBue2Bjr31I8RIxs-rgv_2uYdHOQ/w426-h640/1.png" title="spelling-and-grammar" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Real talk time, I hate spelling and grammar. As a student, I struggled with spelling and grammar and when I began teaching, I still carried a strong disdain for those subjects that had me on the struggle bus every day after snack time. Because I hated and I do mean I truly hated spelling and grammar as a student, I made it one of my missions to make spelling and grammar lessons and practice exciting for my students. Through many failed lessons, headache-causing center ideas, and years under my belt, I can finally share that spelling and grammar time with my students is a fun time! Want to learn how you can make spelling and grammar engaging for your students this year? Read more to explore my top three tips to make spelling and grammar practice fun in your classroom now!</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-46a24f9a-7fff-f3fd-0b1e-4128a0696384"><br /><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #1 in My 3 Tips to Make Spelling and Grammar Practice Fun in Your Classroom: Get Hands On!</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnmZzDkZ7WKxEmWMbaErLkskhlxj3YF0347RYKrplnmkAOtHn6YvoVQ1CDfkX4cbBs50BdQCnnvg24xPkDflt6q-pLmaT8O2k7SKIdnXkseHSU7oY48sI6aLKhz56G8KPN2DgbxK8Xb9w8C0MPLczWjDMl1IpdtTkSsEn5llpO6eFcENCBw_KESrreuQ/s1500/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="spelling-and-grammar" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnmZzDkZ7WKxEmWMbaErLkskhlxj3YF0347RYKrplnmkAOtHn6YvoVQ1CDfkX4cbBs50BdQCnnvg24xPkDflt6q-pLmaT8O2k7SKIdnXkseHSU7oY48sI6aLKhz56G8KPN2DgbxK8Xb9w8C0MPLczWjDMl1IpdtTkSsEn5llpO6eFcENCBw_KESrreuQ/w426-h640/3.png" title="spelling-and-grammar" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the main reasons that I hated spelling and grammar when I was a student was because it was so stinkin’ boring! Every day we would practice memorizing the weekly word list by writing them on lined paper folded “hotdog style,” or write that same list on notecards and quiz ourselves. Can we say snoozefest! I struggled with spelling and grammar academically, and let me tell you, boring memorization activities were not the strategy to help me enjoy those subjects more. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6VbneWRC1CDMNWqsj_fvogHqfhXqN8i8aSz6uld4gxfjC-w8WzE4r2I1tQ17fqgGNxLSypBKAPl_cySHBbOGLVxEfhu9kZf0XvMLihQ7cL_x5bjCI-tTR36L9eEtO8ptwzM5EQ7jYBenKrhZYvP_3c9dB5XogRP459qPDbPjeiqcgSBrBUlpQu2xTzw/s1500/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="spelling-and-grammar" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6VbneWRC1CDMNWqsj_fvogHqfhXqN8i8aSz6uld4gxfjC-w8WzE4r2I1tQ17fqgGNxLSypBKAPl_cySHBbOGLVxEfhu9kZf0XvMLihQ7cL_x5bjCI-tTR36L9eEtO8ptwzM5EQ7jYBenKrhZYvP_3c9dB5XogRP459qPDbPjeiqcgSBrBUlpQu2xTzw/w426-h640/2.png" title="spelling-and-grammar" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you want to boost student engagement around spelling and grammar, you have to bring the fun factor! What is more fun for kids than when they get to use their hands? Get hands-on with spelling and grammar in center activities, independent work, or at the small group table. Some easy hand-on spelling and grammar activities include: using magnetic letters and a cookie sheet, using Pop Its fidgets with the alphabet written on them, and using erasable sleeves paired with spelling and grammar worksheets. The list goes on and on. If you want to explore more ideas for making your spelling and grammar activities hands-on then <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2022/01/how-to-help-students-master-3rd-grade.html ">CLICK HERE</a> to read my spelling blog post.</span></p><br /><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #2 in My 3 Tips to Make Spelling and Grammar Practice Fun in Your Classroom: Try Going Digital</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8DsljaU0tGEuQIueFU7TNiKju9GO7mvtt_QtCLI15PHqfjJi-vILI1r0-br3RnvDfEhUJXD4Y7gWsjorNdPAqqyixxHbMB4dE-ta0F5wwMi0uq2C66pYyJdnvh7ShXswtEljJNfe3U93nmkpeENViHqhExteo1DxMifEx_hkdvjPxfcyX51zlM5qwQ/s1500/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="spelling-and-grammar" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8DsljaU0tGEuQIueFU7TNiKju9GO7mvtt_QtCLI15PHqfjJi-vILI1r0-br3RnvDfEhUJXD4Y7gWsjorNdPAqqyixxHbMB4dE-ta0F5wwMi0uq2C66pYyJdnvh7ShXswtEljJNfe3U93nmkpeENViHqhExteo1DxMifEx_hkdvjPxfcyX51zlM5qwQ/w426-h640/4.png" title="spelling-and-grammar" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students love using technology in the classroom. Teaching to the technological intelligence and increased student engagement are two reasons that I love using technology in class. The question now is, how can I incorporate spelling and grammar practice with technology? Easy! My top two favorite ways to increase spelling and grammar tech fun in the classroom are to use YouTube and digital interactive notebooks. Try utilizing Youtube as a hook for your whole class spelling and grammar lesson, or as a brief review before students begin a center. As for digital interactive notebooks, these can be used during independent task time, spelling and grammar center time, or even as an engaging homework assignment. My students love using digital interactive notebooks to click, drag, move and explore spelling and grammar concepts. Want to explore the digital interactive notebooks that I use for fun spelling and grammar practice? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Parts-of-Speech-Digital-Interactive-Notebook-BUNDLE-5748071">CLICK HERE</a> now.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMira0m8sZyVvLBzAPscb3OnX3TnFi0-LIJsyEo4tKjU7Orr7lXCC081gSjSC7MD6shA9JmueTTNIeLgxnvK_jD5csiub3-o-DT_GfDdahy_Wa58hrSq9h7Qoj-9falD1VFExYNiT1jmkBkvhzY_m1Bmag8RirgB47Mp-B0gP4EioZ4FK_UgTud7M_TQ/s1500/6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="spelling-and-grammar" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMira0m8sZyVvLBzAPscb3OnX3TnFi0-LIJsyEo4tKjU7Orr7lXCC081gSjSC7MD6shA9JmueTTNIeLgxnvK_jD5csiub3-o-DT_GfDdahy_Wa58hrSq9h7Qoj-9falD1VFExYNiT1jmkBkvhzY_m1Bmag8RirgB47Mp-B0gP4EioZ4FK_UgTud7M_TQ/w426-h640/6.png" title="spelling-and-grammar" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #3 in My 3 Tips to Make Spelling and Grammar Practice Fun in Your Classroom: Tier and Differentiate </span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Differentiation in reading is key. You would not ask a child reading at an F&P level M to read and comprehend a level R text. The same goes for spelling and grammar practice. In order to increase enjoyment and engagement, we need to keep students inside the zone of proximal development. When we meet students where they are at, we can help them make small continuous gains towards their goals without feeling overwhelmed and defeated. Try taking an inventory of your student's spelling and grammar knowledge at the beginning of the year. You can assess high-frequency words or specific spelling patterns that are appropriate for your grade level. Then use this data to split your students into three groups, below benchmark, benchmark, and above benchmark. You will use the data you collected to differentiate and tier spelling lists for your three groups and give them words and patterns that meet them at their current level and push their thinking. When I create spelling and grammar tiered groupings I often give them animal names (for example lion, dolphin, moose) so that my students do not realize that their word lists are differentiated by groupings. Tiering my student's spelling and grammar practice helps students feel successful and have more fun with the activities. When our students feel successful with spelling and grammar, they will not only enjoy the lessons but push their thinking to try more. I easily differentiate across my three spelling and grammar groups by using editable spelling activities. These editable spelling activities allow me to type in a word list and then that word list will automatically fill into each activity word bank. At the beginning of each week, I simply type in my three different word lists and generate a week-long activity and practice packet for my three differentiated groups. Easy differentiation and fun spelling activities, make this tip one you want to try! If you want to explore the editable spelling activities that I use, then <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Editable-Spelling-Activities-Editable-spelling-practice-Spelling-worksheets-7101635 ">CLICK THIS LINK</a> now. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaOwODutzXD89K6JThYFlzXQ2rkONAX9HvugmKqul350_a0O3HNgQr30j9zqkpznzboZkM-2mNxARsGeYor7m3vU_89yolER8WH5jcjY7YmnDOzsv4MTQqISCxYknlL3obj5gX4z_iU8Hg1GKEe0DQAq3OQvG2YmkHiHItDervZeu7iKo9-MQDfAwToQ/s1500/5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="spelling-and-grammar" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaOwODutzXD89K6JThYFlzXQ2rkONAX9HvugmKqul350_a0O3HNgQr30j9zqkpznzboZkM-2mNxARsGeYor7m3vU_89yolER8WH5jcjY7YmnDOzsv4MTQqISCxYknlL3obj5gX4z_iU8Hg1GKEe0DQAq3OQvG2YmkHiHItDervZeu7iKo9-MQDfAwToQ/w426-h640/5.png" title="spelling-and-grammar" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you incorporate spelling lessons into your writers' workshop? Are you ready to get rocking, rolling, and writing with your own writers’ workshop? Then be sure to download my writing workshop checklist and launch your best writers’ workshop now! <a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1">CLICK HERE</a> to download.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/s3000/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/w640-h360/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" title="writing-workshop" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj272X4sunIvMRTwRZq9RkON9xb0JEPy2H1DoaAqrHtVOucgmU0rHGuiVoT3Kdx_74QHz_I02nAnWY7x7EmFaqyHzKjWcFfRJKLVelYuFC3_iAKQHVT2w71WG1A7rxOpUxgO3H1b7GKBQYIDKR7S8JzLdeJA8BTxh4RlQS4O2l9YC5XpKQNTJfnW8jMfg/w640-h128/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></div></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-82310088904150775482022-07-18T08:22:00.001-07:002022-08-22T09:02:22.763-07:003 Steps for Boosting Writing Skills With Writing Prompts for Fiction Right Now<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD85QPOtMegIs0nuablNCuCsPyOjHEF5endMxAlalJ8IwM-NSHL5Z5B23T2ZmgRYBUVKUt2bgEZsc5FIFRYMu3Twd6nsm6StFyZfSG3jTpIT2zNDFiNITnvkT70txPc0UyGJ463O1vqG_ecGwncEZ2g3TjforTLTzmgFAQDgdd6eZJEEKU-A61tLwG6g/s1500/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-fiction" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD85QPOtMegIs0nuablNCuCsPyOjHEF5endMxAlalJ8IwM-NSHL5Z5B23T2ZmgRYBUVKUt2bgEZsc5FIFRYMu3Twd6nsm6StFyZfSG3jTpIT2zNDFiNITnvkT70txPc0UyGJ463O1vqG_ecGwncEZ2g3TjforTLTzmgFAQDgdd6eZJEEKU-A61tLwG6g/w426-h640/1.png" title="writing-prompts-for-fiction" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-edbf76a2-7fff-0262-8b44-289ac59e1e70"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you ever underestimated something? For example, I constantly underestimate the amount of pasta it will take to feed my family. It never fails that I will feel the need to cook the entire box of pasta instead of a fistful amount. Many teachers underestimate the power that writing prompts will have on their students. Writing prompts, specifically writing prompts for fiction have an incredible ability to skyrocket student writing skills. Honestly, the year that I started using writing prompts for fiction in my classroom is the year that my writing instruction game changed. Do you want to learn how to easily use writing prompts for fiction to ramp up your students' writing abilities? Read more to learn my three steps for boosting student writing skills with writing prompts for fiction right now!</span></p><br /><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Steps for Boosting Writing Skills With Writing Prompts for Fiction Right Now: Engage Your Writers</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCu3Uh_InjmTjsFBMziRXTI8hZ6WNlMmCvhgPocHoSM9QdmvKhKqIzwQEfWZDTc_UPlI8Dx_vMRaMn5LQVX8wl109q6lgTYkGYZ8rfUllQjbMibq2Lr5IjRpZatKbw2zhuTWq9TGbLYbHLkmt87w97v73znmQ7cGsSykvrLcjicLFm-EDXRz37SFE1bw/s1500/3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCu3Uh_InjmTjsFBMziRXTI8hZ6WNlMmCvhgPocHoSM9QdmvKhKqIzwQEfWZDTc_UPlI8Dx_vMRaMn5LQVX8wl109q6lgTYkGYZ8rfUllQjbMibq2Lr5IjRpZatKbw2zhuTWq9TGbLYbHLkmt87w97v73znmQ7cGsSykvrLcjicLFm-EDXRz37SFE1bw/w426-h640/3.png" title="writers-workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the main reasons that writing prompts for fiction are massively impactful on your student's writing abilities is that they boost engagement. A child who is excited about a task will always put in more effort than you expect. Writing is difficult for so many students. To get them to buy into the challenging task of writing, I ramp up their excitement levels. Children love to imagine and be creative. That is why even your reluctant writers will produce more work when they have a chance to be creative. This is why I love using writing prompts for fiction. Writing prompts for fiction allow my students to get their creative juices flowing and write about silly, magical, mysterious, and thought-provoking topics. It is easy for me to boost student engagement in the writing process when I use writing prompts for fiction. Fiction writing prompts allow my students to enjoy the experience of writing and have fun. When my students use writing prompts for fiction, they are engaged and excited to write and that engagement will boost their writing skills every single day. If you want to explore my favorite writing prompts to use all year along then <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-year-writing-prompts-YEAR-LONG-Writing-Prompts-Opinion-prompts-5433399">CLICK THIS LINK.</a></span></p><br /><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Steps for Boosting Writing Skills With Writing Prompts for Fiction Right Now: Targeted Writing Skills</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUeb4x8RSgQaqtcd3QUax4fZHvnakl1l-JWT1JZZNNjcUTe-Kg-ZYgc2UDce-3fOKtxeGFFdBrU36Dfs3F08s4H2drx3tr9J5v1ah9VTtoKa8g4U70KU28fThJtfbm3JlDYy-nlxs0JJE13nwYB1vpN1aFNlyoSRMPVPdlIUG_ft6YW1u5KzSDeWMzw/s1500/4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-fiction" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUeb4x8RSgQaqtcd3QUax4fZHvnakl1l-JWT1JZZNNjcUTe-Kg-ZYgc2UDce-3fOKtxeGFFdBrU36Dfs3F08s4H2drx3tr9J5v1ah9VTtoKa8g4U70KU28fThJtfbm3JlDYy-nlxs0JJE13nwYB1vpN1aFNlyoSRMPVPdlIUG_ft6YW1u5KzSDeWMzw/w426-h640/4.png" title="writing-prompts-for-fiction" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next step to boosting your students' writing skills with writing prompts for fiction is to align them with targeted skills practice. Let me break it down for you. You have already won your students over by ramping up their buy-in and engagement level. Now you get to increase your impact and capture those lightbulb moments! Use writing prompts for fiction when you want students to practice targeted writing skills. For example, if you recently taught a mini-lesson on dialogue, have your students use a “critter conversation” writing prompts to practice during independent work time. If your students need practice using transition words try using a cookie bandit mystery writing prompt as a morning meeting activity. There are countless ways to incorporate writing prompts for fiction into your daily lessons and increase targeted writing skill time. Are you interested in learning more about using daily writing prompts to easily boost student writing skills? Click <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2021/02/increasing-student-writing-skills-with.html">HERE</a> to read my post for boosting writing skills in fourth grade now.</span></p></span><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Steps for Boosting Writing Skills With Writing Prompts for Fiction Right Now: Monthly Goals</span></h1><span><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWXDB3p487mvutYsWY9zeYuxr1fQFcZK9zNYR_kqDEzBn6w4Hszp1Ijw0ZY3qZQjw7ozjcoEcpwkqcZy-dJxxWbkilHFGWhxbrzvrZCx33eTMBwnKHX6Rij5E6HNnDdb-vaK9dYXTlb3s-YU4XrYbLkZKSJzk9s2NwT-Um0SYOLqY8AIR8mLeJu_4Vfg/s1500/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-fiction" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWXDB3p487mvutYsWY9zeYuxr1fQFcZK9zNYR_kqDEzBn6w4Hszp1Ijw0ZY3qZQjw7ozjcoEcpwkqcZy-dJxxWbkilHFGWhxbrzvrZCx33eTMBwnKHX6Rij5E6HNnDdb-vaK9dYXTlb3s-YU4XrYbLkZKSJzk9s2NwT-Um0SYOLqY8AIR8mLeJu_4Vfg/w426-h640/2.png" title="writing-prompts-for-fiction" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The third way I use writing prompts for fiction is to reach monthly writing goals with my students. Each month students will get new seasonal-themed fiction writing prompts (example: turkey in disguise, a letter to my teacher, spring poetry, and more). Additionally, with new month-themed writing prompts, students will also get a new month goal setting worksheet. This allows me to conference with my students and differentiate goals to help each one of them improve their writing skills. We keep these goal-setting worksheets at the beginning of their writing prompt journals this way every time they are ready to use a writing prompt for fiction in a task, they have to flip past their goals worksheet. This is important because seeing their goals daily will keep them striving to practice and reach those goals. If you want to explore the monthly writing prompts and goal setting worksheets that I use, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-year-writing-prompts-YEAR-LONG-Writing-Prompts-Opinion-prompts-5433399">CLICK HERE</a></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you ready to get rocking, rolling, and writing with your own writers’ workshop? Then be sure to download my writing workshop checklist and launch your best writers’ workshop now! <a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1">CLICK HERE</a> to download.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/s3000/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/w640-h360/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" title="writing-workshop" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj272X4sunIvMRTwRZq9RkON9xb0JEPy2H1DoaAqrHtVOucgmU0rHGuiVoT3Kdx_74QHz_I02nAnWY7x7EmFaqyHzKjWcFfRJKLVelYuFC3_iAKQHVT2w71WG1A7rxOpUxgO3H1b7GKBQYIDKR7S8JzLdeJA8BTxh4RlQS4O2l9YC5XpKQNTJfnW8jMfg/w640-h128/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;" /></p></span></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-68846084951462349622022-07-11T10:59:00.001-07:002022-07-11T10:59:28.891-07:003 Tips to Launching Your Best Writers' Workshop<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFAjohaJnSCZSmrEM_ZM3jIf5kCMP04cdQp_nlkcWC0Go-C8-GGAaXCdCIeMufcB7_4WjPEJ57eJ100mDIZj7UgSgEeBUUzrjXKHP5bnZe1kjrv1McT3FKT-LACmAfd1EIk_TLcMD5ilD_qAY77XbS8t5R6HA0qokEtA60kpwI6e4u-CJcT_JX8x9mQ/s1500/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers’ workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFAjohaJnSCZSmrEM_ZM3jIf5kCMP04cdQp_nlkcWC0Go-C8-GGAaXCdCIeMufcB7_4WjPEJ57eJ100mDIZj7UgSgEeBUUzrjXKHP5bnZe1kjrv1McT3FKT-LACmAfd1EIk_TLcMD5ilD_qAY77XbS8t5R6HA0qokEtA60kpwI6e4u-CJcT_JX8x9mQ/w426-h640/1.png" title="writers’ workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is the best way to help your students grow as writers? For me, the answer to that question is simple, a writers' workshop. Writers’ workshop is my favorite instructional system to help my students move mountains in their writing skills and practice. But what even is a writers’ workshop? How do I set up a successful writers’ workshop that will help my students capture the most lightbulb moments possible? Believe it or not, launching a rock star-worthy writing workshop doesn’t have to be that hard. Read more below to explore my top three tips for launching your best writers’ workshop now!</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-efef79b6-7fff-57ef-889b-35cc638e17c8"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #1 in My 3 Tips to Launching Your Best Writers' Workshop: Have a Plan</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_x43NayCLfWPC2C4zNXbE3CHkgC1K2q8g0LeB_0LWN1t2v2dkkPPB_JWo_HLD1qizC20qwhs-GDIgPeOEQaaoj2HIZsvMN34qfhRQGPanXdTnGt5La6fBV5NwIjMYEcMl585ZBP4ecVV7VCvXgrhC22HNlM3YE9f1Nn5THQvrflaSXs3_tWxUyanRxQ/s1500/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers’ workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_x43NayCLfWPC2C4zNXbE3CHkgC1K2q8g0LeB_0LWN1t2v2dkkPPB_JWo_HLD1qizC20qwhs-GDIgPeOEQaaoj2HIZsvMN34qfhRQGPanXdTnGt5La6fBV5NwIjMYEcMl585ZBP4ecVV7VCvXgrhC22HNlM3YE9f1Nn5THQvrflaSXs3_tWxUyanRxQ/w426-h640/2.png" title="writers’ workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s start from the beginning, shall we? You may be wondering, what exactly is a writers’ workshop? A Writers' workshop is a way to structure your writing block. The standard writers' workshop will have the following components: mini-lesson, writing time, and a share. Your mini-lesson is a short 5-15 minute teacher lead instruction. During this time you will gather students to your lesson area in the classroom and deliver a brief but impactful mini-lesson for their current writing skills. Next, You will release students from the mini-lesson area to return to their writing spaces and work on their assigned tasks (ex. writing prompts, working in their writing journals, etc.). While the students are working independently, you will be holding writing conferences to check in with students and help them grow in their craft and skills. Be sure to record all of your notes in your conferring binder or notebook. (<a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2020/03/the-easiest-guided-reading-notes-ever.html">CLICK HERE</a> to read all about the easiest conferencing notes you’ll ever take). Finally, you will wrap up your writers’ workshop block by calling students back to the gathering area and giving them time to share their writing work from class today with a peer. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxXrDiOpo6nJQHxzHLIoky_wY3i64vFvYzNZua9gmDor6LjWk5YvkNKzmIsgimSPNVT63pKs1Zs2o-xM_YFDqzqvPO5q_pgEvhWGqIZapKhcvJo2nYRvxlPa_MgW-tEzU3W9sZr_zu-Ykjv3bWohcWvQKNV5X3N8J9QJUQOX-sikqa0bMZW4rztIwDLA/s1500/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers’ workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxXrDiOpo6nJQHxzHLIoky_wY3i64vFvYzNZua9gmDor6LjWk5YvkNKzmIsgimSPNVT63pKs1Zs2o-xM_YFDqzqvPO5q_pgEvhWGqIZapKhcvJo2nYRvxlPa_MgW-tEzU3W9sZr_zu-Ykjv3bWohcWvQKNV5X3N8J9QJUQOX-sikqa0bMZW4rztIwDLA/w426-h640/3.png" title="writers’ workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that we’ve gone over the basic components of a writers’ workshop, let’s talk about making a plan to launch those components into your best writers’ workshop! The very first thing you will need to do is to set up a writing station in your classroom. This will be a space where you house all your current skill anchor charts, a breakdown of the writers’ workshop schedule, and your clearly labeled writers’ workshop student tools (extra paper, erasers, etc). You can read more about setting up your best writing station by <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2019/11/3-steps-to-setting-up-successful.html">CLICKING HERE</a>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP9JF08fIbT6KjHTTmEqt8rCKP_mqTYX6EhtF1SKbJ5SSL9FzEAjYp5sX-fJcUGQH5jM6go7lubsb8A55O4BfwYsfHkSl3xfTR_AwInkl9eMrrdjpsqiXeq-xMnS1g2qHG63Feju0E1fK8VgnnfYpDE8JusPd88NOSqRA_MMrbUfLFh73kdAhdBnx1tw/s1500/7.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers’ workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP9JF08fIbT6KjHTTmEqt8rCKP_mqTYX6EhtF1SKbJ5SSL9FzEAjYp5sX-fJcUGQH5jM6go7lubsb8A55O4BfwYsfHkSl3xfTR_AwInkl9eMrrdjpsqiXeq-xMnS1g2qHG63Feju0E1fK8VgnnfYpDE8JusPd88NOSqRA_MMrbUfLFh73kdAhdBnx1tw/w426-h640/7.png" title="writers’ workshop" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next step you will need to take is to teach the new routine to your students. What does the timeframe look like for each part of this new writing block routine? Where will they physically go during each component (ex. Gathering area, conferencing area, independent writing spot). Finally and most importantly, take time to actively model the expectations for each area. DO NOT SKIP THIS PART! I promise you if you take the time to physically act out the expected and unexpected behaviors in each spot you will thank me twenty times over in the long run. For example, show the students what it will look, see, and sound like during mini-lesson time each day. Then be sure to show them what it will NOT look, see, and sound like and discuss the differences and their importance. Pro tip: when active modeling, be sure the students are always acting out the correct or desired behavior and you are the only one acting out / modeling the “wrong” behaviors. Students will love seeing you as the adult act poorly and in ways that they know are not correct for the classroom. This visual will help the expectations and desired behaviors for the writers’ workshop sink in for your students. Hold on, you’re almost done! When you break down each section and active model what each time will look, see, and sound like, be sure to write and post them on an anchor chart! This will be immensely helpful to remind students of the new writers’ workshop routine and expectations as you roll out the new routine. Finally, be sure to plan on practicing and repeating the writers’ workshop expectations. This is not a one-and-done thing, with all expectations, they will hold longevity when you practice, practice, practice them. I know that this can be a pain when you just want to hit the ground running! But take it from me, teacher friend, if you do not take the time to thoroughly teach and practice the routines, your writers’ workshop structure will crumble.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVlEyK6YPNp2UJYexTgmH-gkYNxoiNioA3BHG74iZj0RgW9TpiNFk69bKNwoMA2Jzoj8EIUcvkO0_NjkszLqVV4LUxFOE8NmkoFUYjksxKoyoTi9LMPqwUey7Iqg6e4lzUwe2RbfpwkKJ9qTn01OUaReTgbPWcmMF0lShdwL8GNZlxRdf1S9UdQpcEw/s1500/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers’ workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVlEyK6YPNp2UJYexTgmH-gkYNxoiNioA3BHG74iZj0RgW9TpiNFk69bKNwoMA2Jzoj8EIUcvkO0_NjkszLqVV4LUxFOE8NmkoFUYjksxKoyoTi9LMPqwUey7Iqg6e4lzUwe2RbfpwkKJ9qTn01OUaReTgbPWcmMF0lShdwL8GNZlxRdf1S9UdQpcEw/w426-h640/4.png" title="writers’ workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #2 in My 3 Tips to Launching Your Best Writers' Workshop: Writers Notebooks</span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBAlQsvOlCxlVsp5Nl7gj0hMlhZdFQF82wlCJKJSonw8nLYiKp3pnLIgJKmRTP0UpPeCod8FHKqoIQeXVFBW57EVWXkL_DXKojxZwPe08TpPLALgAxIaQsLEvZHAY1JQCRMFurWvQ4Zugjws3SYBXBf9iTHOgBFcQ9eMqT2AOA_G9mg9dIYxNUZRlkA/s1500/6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers’ workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBAlQsvOlCxlVsp5Nl7gj0hMlhZdFQF82wlCJKJSonw8nLYiKp3pnLIgJKmRTP0UpPeCod8FHKqoIQeXVFBW57EVWXkL_DXKojxZwPe08TpPLALgAxIaQsLEvZHAY1JQCRMFurWvQ4Zugjws3SYBXBf9iTHOgBFcQ9eMqT2AOA_G9mg9dIYxNUZRlkA/w426-h640/6.png" title="writers’ workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that you have your writers’ workshop routine rolled out, let's talk about instruction. As you guide your students through their targeted skills and writing instruction how will you keep them organized? What tools can you use to help your students capture those coveted lightbulb moments and thrive as writers this year? I always use writers’ notebooks as my tool of choice to keep my kiddos organized and help them thrive. A writer's notebook is a one-stop-shop that contains everything my students will need for each writing unit I will teach them during our writers’ workshop this year. You can set up a writer's notebook in three different ways: a three-ring binder, a composition notebook, or using plastic binding combs. Writing notebooks are KEY to my student's success in my writers’ workshop! Inside each writer's notebook, my students will have a growing student dictionary, suggested words to expand their vocabulary, a commonly misspelled word list, dividers for easy access and organization, and graphic organizers that will lead us through the entire writing process, final copy paper, and more. These tools are crucial to have in the palms of my student's hands every single day. The more I give them access to, the more they will grow! Additionally, my students always know where their writing work is located, inside their writer's notebook. This rockin’ writing tool is easy to transport to teacher conferences as well. Win-win! If you want to explore my favorite writers’ workshop writing tool, then <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-notebook-MEGA-bundle-Writers-notebooks-Opinion-Narrative-Fiction-8202466">CLICK THIS LINK NOW.</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTpS_66bF2B7JfC5x921uC7cKjO7Okk1BaeUNgXyuaDF3Hf9Ctw13FxVtQEhYTLXGFODT1VOApsLFu_dxvwXx7AE9vqHR5csu2jO9fagtvgL80FsczT2ZVii3Lrkhha6mAPK-cgFJ_IsH4EyU18Yay1BlwwHDB4YB07otAixZAxC1am9VwZ6IkMU0Xg/s1500/5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers’ workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTpS_66bF2B7JfC5x921uC7cKjO7Okk1BaeUNgXyuaDF3Hf9Ctw13FxVtQEhYTLXGFODT1VOApsLFu_dxvwXx7AE9vqHR5csu2jO9fagtvgL80FsczT2ZVii3Lrkhha6mAPK-cgFJ_IsH4EyU18Yay1BlwwHDB4YB07otAixZAxC1am9VwZ6IkMU0Xg/w426-h640/5.png" title="writers’ workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #3 in My 3 Tips to Launching Your Best Writers' Workshop: Build a Love of Writing</span></h1><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My final tip for launching your best writers’ workshop ever is to help your students build a love of writing. As teachers, we want to foster a passion for curiosity and a desire for knowledge in our student's hearts. How can a writers’ workshop help you to fan that writing flame? Through your share time. The share component of the writers’ workshop is when students get to shine. Here they will have time carved out to share their hard work each day. This is so important because students will feel a sense of pride when sharing their writing work with others. This pride will help them begin to love writing and believe the truth that they are good writers. I love to use our daily writing prompts for our share time. I choose this because these writing prompts are always “gotta talk about it” topics that get my kiddos talking and sharing. Whether you have kiddos share from their <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Personal-Narrative-writing-notebook-Personal-Narrative-Writing-Graphic-Organizer-4884790">writer's notebook</a> or their daily <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-year-writing-prompts-YEAR-LONG-Writing-Prompts-Opinion-prompts-5433399">writing prompts</a> make sure to save time for that powerful share time and watch your students begin to soar.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2Pwcnm8P9IbDihs_73kfAGHND-1BnnZgd37KfgBxKWlb6ya2PMyfZn_AUF9Zl7hL5JRI4XYIM0rNDl8jVy0M5nhqaJ_KuLRObheRcPdBi6VRVPoJap-j4BsVtAjck8syTokjsygLWZDAEybDnM_J8n0XxFC4SwPGJwzk-UXUY-7C9VSNzTHWNkxThw/s1500/8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers’ workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2Pwcnm8P9IbDihs_73kfAGHND-1BnnZgd37KfgBxKWlb6ya2PMyfZn_AUF9Zl7hL5JRI4XYIM0rNDl8jVy0M5nhqaJ_KuLRObheRcPdBi6VRVPoJap-j4BsVtAjck8syTokjsygLWZDAEybDnM_J8n0XxFC4SwPGJwzk-UXUY-7C9VSNzTHWNkxThw/w426-h640/8.png" title="writers’ workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There you have it, my top three tips for launching your best writers’ workshop. Are you ready to get rocking, rolling, and writing with your own writers’ workshop? Then be sure to download my writing workshop checklist and launch your best writers’ workshop now! <a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1">CLICK HERE</a> to download.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/s3000/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/w640-h360/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" title="writing-workshop" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj272X4sunIvMRTwRZq9RkON9xb0JEPy2H1DoaAqrHtVOucgmU0rHGuiVoT3Kdx_74QHz_I02nAnWY7x7EmFaqyHzKjWcFfRJKLVelYuFC3_iAKQHVT2w71WG1A7rxOpUxgO3H1b7GKBQYIDKR7S8JzLdeJA8BTxh4RlQS4O2l9YC5XpKQNTJfnW8jMfg/w640-h128/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-31792470796280827702022-07-06T09:29:00.005-07:002022-07-06T09:31:22.902-07:00The 3 Top Tips for Teaching Strong Reader's Response Entries<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXti6nDfdcBt3ys4uVmD17a0FMLxkEmz6GH8quoxBmrWZeUSIkmJZZb_cTH--vUn6mQx1g2tcGOrACo7lRJeVhkRU1aaFvugGMeUJ9D_Bw-EHqwXQSHYLyLLI0OKf-s2LBYn8X_TrJ28t9ZLGS5vNZUVSgYvptQ9jQMVtv8gmIltdy7BThb0JYq4JZ2Q/s1500/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reader's-response" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXti6nDfdcBt3ys4uVmD17a0FMLxkEmz6GH8quoxBmrWZeUSIkmJZZb_cTH--vUn6mQx1g2tcGOrACo7lRJeVhkRU1aaFvugGMeUJ9D_Bw-EHqwXQSHYLyLLI0OKf-s2LBYn8X_TrJ28t9ZLGS5vNZUVSgYvptQ9jQMVtv8gmIltdy7BThb0JYq4JZ2Q/w426-h640/1.png" title="reader's-response" width="426" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading is a tricky skill. Responding to reading is even trickier, and crafting a rich reader's response is the top layer on the tricky reading skills cake. Reader's response journaling is an extremely powerful tool in reading instruction. Reader's response entries allow students to show off their skills and thinking through their texts. Reader's response entries also allow teachers to discuss and evaluate our kiddo's level of understanding in reading skills to reteach, push, and ultimately help them make massive gains in reading. Reader's responses are an amazing strategy, but how do we teach our students to craft them? How can we teach students to show off their thinking and write powerful reader’s response entries that make them proud? Read more to explore my top three tips for teaching strong readers response entries now!</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-46bbb40a-7fff-6a06-54c6-804cbb14ca06"><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #1 in The 3 Top Tips for Teaching Strong Readers Response Entries: Teach How to Respond to Reading</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedZl4dpYrYe2c8QdoBCLshsEfc4-2tpmscNqxT6YFdW1AFfw94BdHJLeIoXzrpkqSz23C_YFF9u2ot262xRdBSPEGbLRdwqiBugA5zWON0cStRU5kh6kSaTkllcULPPGoI-jCa3EdgPt2XViI3lbNZ5rlzEg6Yen_u_GzIVmT48gu3ckRqfInUsxRqA/s1500/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reader's-response" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedZl4dpYrYe2c8QdoBCLshsEfc4-2tpmscNqxT6YFdW1AFfw94BdHJLeIoXzrpkqSz23C_YFF9u2ot262xRdBSPEGbLRdwqiBugA5zWON0cStRU5kh6kSaTkllcULPPGoI-jCa3EdgPt2XViI3lbNZ5rlzEg6Yen_u_GzIVmT48gu3ckRqfInUsxRqA/w426-h640/2.png" title="reader's-response" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you want to improve the reader's response entries that your students write, then you need to explicitly teach how to craft a reading response. Start by using your favorite mentor text, pick a reader's response question or skill to respond to, and get to work! Active model a fantastic reader's response journal example for your students. Take your time and don’t skip a single step! Start by discussing what you are thinking before you write so your students can hear how strong readers engage their minds while reading. Then show how to format your reader's response on an anchor chart or whiteboard. Finally, show students how to use text evidence to support their thinking and correctly cite that evidence. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiET2AP7erJBcs9L0pOEENpCQAb5r2HSm4WJtq3m6HElgB4K7iVEtVdHfQh0I-Way-sLj1kA4rRN8gIciNDrvY-V3UJSZzh3Qzjxg0-QGT9w12aa8PF0MpWC4lJI7_9TN2v389Jzel75alyQ_40Z_E0rxLpfCgBc3XZUSky-4w7ND3PVzu8ICafACb9sA/s1500/4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reader's-response-notebook" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiET2AP7erJBcs9L0pOEENpCQAb5r2HSm4WJtq3m6HElgB4K7iVEtVdHfQh0I-Way-sLj1kA4rRN8gIciNDrvY-V3UJSZzh3Qzjxg0-QGT9w12aa8PF0MpWC4lJI7_9TN2v389Jzel75alyQ_40Z_E0rxLpfCgBc3XZUSky-4w7ND3PVzu8ICafACb9sA/w426-h640/4.png" title="reader's-response-notebook" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once your active modeling is complete, allow time to discuss the process with your students. Explain the importance of each step and how strong reader's response journaling will make them better readers this year. After that, send students back to their working spaces to copy the reader's response example that you just created. This is crucial! For your students to grow as readers and in their reading responses, they need to have tools at their disposal that will help them get the job done well. You cannot have a one-and-done reader's response lesson and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">poof! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">expect to have stellar reader’s response entries like magic. Actively reading and writing about reading is hard work! Students will work at this reader's response skill over time, like strengthening a muscle. To strengthen this muscle, students must-have resources and tools to refer to. Make sure students glue this class-created reader's response exemplar into their reader's response notebooks. This will serve as a mini anchor chart and reference for them as they continue to improve their reader's response skills.</span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #2 in The 3 Top Tips for Teaching Strong Readers Response Entries: Use Question Starters.</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNndy8x-29vyk7c82A5OlreiesCLPnkyE8HuMgymwQLYHpSQINeYuL8cUqDmcXPmFPh-tHY3iD9vfkjjsQ8NjP8DbMubq--YNG12p0Dtcow0e3L_dv04pu7erTxnzneUivu7P1Y95EYqhdBaPM9TErHmlU5cO0nYirBf_71u36NTa_JPy0t3j1xrzf5Q/s1500/5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reader's-response" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNndy8x-29vyk7c82A5OlreiesCLPnkyE8HuMgymwQLYHpSQINeYuL8cUqDmcXPmFPh-tHY3iD9vfkjjsQ8NjP8DbMubq--YNG12p0Dtcow0e3L_dv04pu7erTxnzneUivu7P1Y95EYqhdBaPM9TErHmlU5cO0nYirBf_71u36NTa_JPy0t3j1xrzf5Q/w426-h640/5.png" title="reader's-response" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that you have actively modeled a strong reader's response for your students, it is time for them to practice. However, we don’t want to toss our kiddos into the deep end of the pool when they have only dipped their toes in and still have floaties on their arms. In order to help students progress in their reader's response journaling, we need to give them baby steps to success. Instead of expecting students to instantly begin reading and responding like active readers, take a step back and give them reader's response prompts and graphic organizers. These prompts and reading graphic organizers will serve as a starting point and allow their heavy lifting and thinking to be done in crafting their strong reader's response. I provide my students with reader's response question starters and graphic organizers for every targeted reading skill that they will write about this year. For example, if they are writing a reader's response about our new targeted reading skill of inference, I provide them with question starters like, “When I read ___ I can infer ____. I know this because ____.” Additionally, they have reading graphic organizers to reach targeted reading skills available to them inside of their reader's response notebooks. Simply providing a starting point for students through graphic organizers or prompts helps them to springboard their ideas onto their papers and highlight their thinking in their reader's response. If you want to explore more about how I teach inference, click <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2022/04/teach-inferring-like-boss-with.html">THIS LINK</a> to read my blog post now.</span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #3 in The 3 Top Tips for Teaching Strong Readers Response Entries: Give Them Easy Access to Reading Tools.</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6kp4CICTtBB-8Gy0wZUPFs9FrLRIEXec84W5NIIaD_byA4XTsRSBGAmZcI2AZCU-Ke-n4ohq24t9LUAghljD8TxG8C_cXgBadUv6-qatxe_YNXtWEHKFMZe_ekotIxkwaN7zSAcsxyPcl70fEnIyXZQnpBV723RRjytpJyTH8KNkepyVQclo6PnVjHw/s1500/3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reader's-response-notebook" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6kp4CICTtBB-8Gy0wZUPFs9FrLRIEXec84W5NIIaD_byA4XTsRSBGAmZcI2AZCU-Ke-n4ohq24t9LUAghljD8TxG8C_cXgBadUv6-qatxe_YNXtWEHKFMZe_ekotIxkwaN7zSAcsxyPcl70fEnIyXZQnpBV723RRjytpJyTH8KNkepyVQclo6PnVjHw/w426-h640/3.png" title="reader's-response-notebook" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you remember earlier on in this blog post when we discussed the importance of your students saving and using the reader's response exemplar? This ease of access to tools can not stop there! If you want your students to demonstrate their depth and understanding of characters or plot then give them the tools to remember your mini-lesson and build off of it. Provide your students with mini anchor charts that they can keep inside of their reader's response notebooks. This is the most powerful tool you can give your students when helping them grow as active readers and craft powerful readers response entries. For example, let’s pretend that my student Sonya is reading the book The Wild Robot and I ask her to do a reading response about the main character Roz. Without the proper tools, I am expecting her to recall character trait lessons and skills, mentally decide what to write a reader's response about, find text evidence, cite, and format it all correctly. That is a lot for an elementary student to do independently. Without the proper support in place, Sonya may feel overwhelmed, defeated, and produce a reader's response that does not accurately display her knowledge of character traits. However, when Sonya is given a reference point and prompts to get her started, light bulb moments burst and flash. She can focus on building on her character trait knowledge instead of just trying to recall the base level lesson and reproduce a reader's response at the introductory level. Deep thinking is what we are aiming for and excitement around reading. Mini anchor charts help our students feel confident in their reader's responses and proud of their work. When our kiddos are proud of what they create, they will always work harder than we expect them to and learn even more.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFP1AM_H425YoI7eMLFIkIoNV0s7IZ6CXnr3_mNdfEiDbEu0nQzduCN81ayoPMMJ7XjVfTn1-BvjSfDY6CN1l2UFGvNMyTo2mxZviMDbmRSB9Vn69ywIBeCR2T9TNXr9rX8XM4yYb1Iilqd-ZB-sYzZPCHAvNVNxiE40hXRkpL_ptw4fwW_urZQBZHXA/s1500/6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reader's-response" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFP1AM_H425YoI7eMLFIkIoNV0s7IZ6CXnr3_mNdfEiDbEu0nQzduCN81ayoPMMJ7XjVfTn1-BvjSfDY6CN1l2UFGvNMyTo2mxZviMDbmRSB9Vn69ywIBeCR2T9TNXr9rX8XM4yYb1Iilqd-ZB-sYzZPCHAvNVNxiE40hXRkpL_ptw4fwW_urZQBZHXA/w426-h640/6.png" title="reader's-response" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope you enjoyed reading my top three tips for teaching strong readers response skills. If <br />you are looking for more tips to help your students capture light bulb moments in reading, then <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2021/09/how-to-build-strong-readers-with.html">CLICK HERE</a> to read my blog post about targeted reading skills now!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you looking for the reader's response notebooks that I use and love so much? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Response-Journal-Reading-response-notebook-Readers-notebook-8252231">CLICK THIS LINK</a> to explore my favorite reader's response notebooks now!</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdI5A94OdI1jNbzNsf6_XfjciIYEaoJB1EyTABi0-1i6gxKQy_TDT0d44wACM8trZnHEKHTJ071g9wNGk___tFPUkzgup7EbLf4SUKgTJaDlgM8swx1eELoLZp0h34jYXj7hZ9GtzREmjn6WYHNJBkf6gxPL0dQHsQGCSW9fbKpbRBx77LE5Hr1ufcw/s2700/readers-response-notebook-cover%20pic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reader's-response" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdI5A94OdI1jNbzNsf6_XfjciIYEaoJB1EyTABi0-1i6gxKQy_TDT0d44wACM8trZnHEKHTJ071g9wNGk___tFPUkzgup7EbLf4SUKgTJaDlgM8swx1eELoLZp0h34jYXj7hZ9GtzREmjn6WYHNJBkf6gxPL0dQHsQGCSW9fbKpbRBx77LE5Hr1ufcw/w400-h400/readers-response-notebook-cover%20pic.jpg" title="reader's-response" width="400" /></a></div></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-29957601055212360172022-06-27T13:48:00.001-07:002022-06-27T13:48:07.122-07:00The Top 3 Ways to Boost Your Students Writing Stamina Right Now<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmUd2E4lJZ2gcqBWtzLwRSZUXRbFmU9e89wT81Nt6PCJjpPgXX-PkY9CwndtWRX0e-Kwob0M5A4ZuejvNDb7LnOEI4gYAiYIgNAV5oJUgQJ3SjppPIz2vwPlu_RW0M7nGA77E1H1GVTWq1f1XUP0pGimphzi0IYHsDof2zni6uk4oQbdP9BF0D2ux_w/s1500/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-stamina" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmUd2E4lJZ2gcqBWtzLwRSZUXRbFmU9e89wT81Nt6PCJjpPgXX-PkY9CwndtWRX0e-Kwob0M5A4ZuejvNDb7LnOEI4gYAiYIgNAV5oJUgQJ3SjppPIz2vwPlu_RW0M7nGA77E1H1GVTWq1f1XUP0pGimphzi0IYHsDof2zni6uk4oQbdP9BF0D2ux_w/w426-h640/1.png" title="writing-stamina" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">What does your writers’ workshop look like during independent time? Do your students maintain a driven focus on their work? Or does your writers’ workshop writing time stare out strong and then fizzle into distractions and students doodling on their notebooks? The difference between a writers’ workshop with strongly focused writers and one where it all falls apart is one simple little word, stamina. Writing stamina is the sole difference between helping your students move mountains in their writing skills and barely making progress at all. Writing stamina is the key factor, the secret sauce to long-maintained writing blocks where students can hone in on their writing strategies and skills. So what is writing stamina and how do my students get it? Read more teacher friend and because I am about to share my top three tips for boosting your student's writing stamina right now!</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a92818aa-7fff-d296-b4d2-a1aa8980c019"><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #1 in My Top 3 Ways to Boost Your Students Writing Stamina Right Now: Teach Writing Stamina.</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs-_ikQSS6x4v3RPQIGUm1GmamDFkKXhoVMaQ9pC_Q8yWxDFMlEx0wjeKxu7lige61rAa_RPNZp334JNaYK2e0paTB07enGVJZOVI1_Jnz5IRr-peDzXaSoIUkTRlvLEwLW7Y1Bz2fusplMj5YXJnR0N391hUcDWAuZ27q9LmxJHAe4_RCLv_dPXUrFA/s1500/5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-stamina" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs-_ikQSS6x4v3RPQIGUm1GmamDFkKXhoVMaQ9pC_Q8yWxDFMlEx0wjeKxu7lige61rAa_RPNZp334JNaYK2e0paTB07enGVJZOVI1_Jnz5IRr-peDzXaSoIUkTRlvLEwLW7Y1Bz2fusplMj5YXJnR0N391hUcDWAuZ27q9LmxJHAe4_RCLv_dPXUrFA/w426-h640/5.png" title="writing-stamina" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This tip is so simple that unfortunately, most teachers blast right past it. For your students to have writing stamina in their writers’ workshop, they must first know what writing stamina is. In the beginning weeks of the school year, when you are teaching writers’ workshop routines and procedures, take time to have writing stamina mini-lessons. Discuss writing stamina in-depth, and use active modeling, and posters to show writing stamina to your students. Show them what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to have writing stamina in your class or grade level. This is an incredibly powerful step to boosting your student's writing stamina because simply put, how can they have writing stamina when they have never been taught, explicitly what writing stamina is? How can you jump and grab a bar that you cannot see? Take time and teach writing stamina to your students so they will know the goal that they are working towards.</span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #2 in My Top 3 Ways to Boost Your Students Writing Stamina Right Now: Set a Class Writing Stamina Goal</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRlScmxgTJ9xzIoAO3P0HH2Bh3-2duU6rj-DyVLNxVSfrSy2mpXqNvBpvqiYhg2oRCEoSA7qRS59-LZ7PJ2S_4Efkk0bfSawa7gx0MDZkYRXFEDJ2o9CYGuMhRLIXtgoaKaqDg70mLzIHSNigBn9MQzGAVQL9tvnS_WWYi4E4nGjqMUeBlk_yOfZfS7Q/s1500/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-stamina-chart" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRlScmxgTJ9xzIoAO3P0HH2Bh3-2duU6rj-DyVLNxVSfrSy2mpXqNvBpvqiYhg2oRCEoSA7qRS59-LZ7PJ2S_4Efkk0bfSawa7gx0MDZkYRXFEDJ2o9CYGuMhRLIXtgoaKaqDg70mLzIHSNigBn9MQzGAVQL9tvnS_WWYi4E4nGjqMUeBlk_yOfZfS7Q/w426-h640/2.png" title="writing-stamina-chart" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Positive peer pressure is a powerful thing. Why not use this power to your advantage? After teaching your students about writing stamina, set your first class-wide writing stamina goal. An example could be a goal to have each student in the class participate in focused writing for twenty minutes. Have a discussion with your students about a goal that they want to set and that you feel is appropriate and achievable for your group of learners. Once you have set the goal, put it up large and in charge on a writing stamina chart or poster. Hang your goal and the progress you make on the wall. Be sure to check in on it frequently and discuss the progress made with your students. When your class wide goal is met, be sure to celebrate! Reaching a class wide goal is a big deal and should be treated as such. Honor your students who have worked on their writing stamina and collaborate to raise the bar and set your next goal. You will build a community of writers who want a long and focused writing block this way and the impacts it will make on their writing skills will amaze you! You can use a digital timer like the ones <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MrTimer">HERE</a> to project and help students stay focused while they are working towards their writing stamina goals.</span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #3 in My Top 3 Ways to Boost Your Students Writing Stamina Right Now: Set Individual Goals.</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrccjgwwD87s2BXHCNR0FN6i_yHCb5mFbOf02xw7JYfh0ZFYR7SjZWALUUPuQQzCHaFVi51QX-ujb3md-UGADRpFvs8xfsFhXYsLiCtwRp02UY4pTkpsX24MHOoE5Rql84ZbSs-chnHwtKtBntV7VJaiJQT3Ris5xGICoLqsvSLRVv5zBLXkicxIPBdw/s1500/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-stamina-chart" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrccjgwwD87s2BXHCNR0FN6i_yHCb5mFbOf02xw7JYfh0ZFYR7SjZWALUUPuQQzCHaFVi51QX-ujb3md-UGADRpFvs8xfsFhXYsLiCtwRp02UY4pTkpsX24MHOoE5Rql84ZbSs-chnHwtKtBntV7VJaiJQT3Ris5xGICoLqsvSLRVv5zBLXkicxIPBdw/w426-h640/3.png" title="writing-stamina-chart" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the same way, you have a class wide and individual behavior management system, so should you too for writing goals. As teachers, we know that the key to tremendous student growth is to keep them inside of their zone of proximal development. If you have a student who cannot stay focused for ten minutes, the class goal of twenty will seem unachievable and defeating for them. Break this monster goal down into bite-sized pieces for them. Use visuals like bar graph charts where individual students can color in to track their progress and see the gains that they are making. Having individual writing stamina goals and conferences will not only help individual students to boost their writing stamina but your whole class's writing stamina collectively. You can use individual digital timers to help students track their writing stamina times and graph them. Soon they will start to see their writing stamina grow and their skills will improve as well.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVYDuUMQ5b4Cw4xxaFK94mn1t7inE4eBGhP95TlOyi_t4vBE1ObZ1XsU56BGF9Zn3aQnXTZHS-pseCLX6Hi-ujaSPz8ecGWSrtiKAZ_sgcrm_EN9jZd8DBE1WGc6-L7tYXGF6aseOhheXm_PwudZD3dmWDxbZvRMcCt1ECWg3NIzwE_w-NlK6XCkkRg/s1500/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-stamina" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVYDuUMQ5b4Cw4xxaFK94mn1t7inE4eBGhP95TlOyi_t4vBE1ObZ1XsU56BGF9Zn3aQnXTZHS-pseCLX6Hi-ujaSPz8ecGWSrtiKAZ_sgcrm_EN9jZd8DBE1WGc6-L7tYXGF6aseOhheXm_PwudZD3dmWDxbZvRMcCt1ECWg3NIzwE_w-NlK6XCkkRg/w426-h640/4.png" title="writing-stamina" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing stamina is crucial for all students. Writing stamina is the key to helping our students stay focused on their work and move mountains in their writing skills and craft. Are you looking for done-for-you writing stamina teaching resources? Explore the writing stamina charts, posters, data sheets, and more that I use by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-skills-anchor-chart-Writing-stamina-Writing-data-tracking-Writing-poster-7979861">THIS LINK NOW!</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBCGMGQn8MsVgsyyJgxzITsT-hwsF-B9ayKkBGrMu7RYY7llMvhhReHsalJSvp26vpLRe1mI8MuoaPmNNcn4eIhHX_VXC2BtekGjaPHlBfXILvxHCBmvHfd3fR7AymUus7gyLC7YwfQSNACh-0Cp7-VcsnqgbrPYfRJ6e7NYgFLk8I3amLn8aITP9uLQ/s2700/writing-stamina-anchor-chart%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-stamina" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBCGMGQn8MsVgsyyJgxzITsT-hwsF-B9ayKkBGrMu7RYY7llMvhhReHsalJSvp26vpLRe1mI8MuoaPmNNcn4eIhHX_VXC2BtekGjaPHlBfXILvxHCBmvHfd3fR7AymUus7gyLC7YwfQSNACh-0Cp7-VcsnqgbrPYfRJ6e7NYgFLk8I3amLn8aITP9uLQ/w400-h400/writing-stamina-anchor-chart%20cover.jpg" title="writing-stamina" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you ready to rock your writing workshop this year? I've got your back and the tools you need with my epic new writing workshop FREEBIE! This writing workshop includes everything you need to get your writing block rocking, rolling, and make a massive impact with your students! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would love to share my writing workshop checklist, posters, and 5 printable + Google Classroom ready writing prompt resource with you so you can try out the tips you just read about! 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Raise your hand if this has ever happened during your writers’ workshop. If you are Like I used to be then you may have just finished a rockin’ mini-lesson and were ready to settle into your writing conferences when that one student, or several, have misplaced their work. Groan! Nothing derails a great writers’ workshop block like when a student has missing work. Well, I’m happy to share that I kissed those writers’ workshop nightmares goodbye the day I said hello to writer’s notebooks. Now I use those little blessings for every single writing unit that I teach, and guess what, no missing work! On top of that, my students reach incredible heights as writers. Honestly, from easy organization to more lightbulb moments, I could sing the praises of writer’s notebooks all day! Want to know the very best way to set up your writer’s notebooks for maximum success and impact with your students this year? Keep reading to explore my top 5 tips for setting up your writer’s notebooks this year.</span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #1 of the 5 Best Tips for Setting up Your Writer's Notebooks This Year: Get Setup on the Right Foot</span></h2><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_h08X7mMD2aUMuZqzdn0J-1_dEV68sWy6uLQlK4xA19cP7-lr7WULvJ-G6GZTJg4ihGzo78lNvMZHFEMp0JQfTYv_oe866OolS8OWxZ6AiCVKJ1r730Ye85IJYS7iAQIQZfXVTd0JGnvIY_wd1xnxsEFyd8gwgRbJrDlQM1tMM7rTtICJH9Qgxe64Dw/s1500/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writer's-notebooks" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_h08X7mMD2aUMuZqzdn0J-1_dEV68sWy6uLQlK4xA19cP7-lr7WULvJ-G6GZTJg4ihGzo78lNvMZHFEMp0JQfTYv_oe866OolS8OWxZ6AiCVKJ1r730Ye85IJYS7iAQIQZfXVTd0JGnvIY_wd1xnxsEFyd8gwgRbJrDlQM1tMM7rTtICJH9Qgxe64Dw/w426-h640/2.png" title="writer's-notebooks" width="426" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-9604a088-7fff-40a8-9549-d2883e2c1e1b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before we begin, let's chat about what on Earth a writer’s notebook even is. A writer’s notebook is an amazing writing tool that will house all of the writing materials your students will need for each writing unit (personal narrative, opinion, informational, and so on). These notebooks will hold onto everything that each one of your students needs to increase their vocabulary and craft as writers. But before we get too far into the components of a writer’s notebook, let’s discuss setup and storage. The first thing you need to decide when creating your writer’s notebooks is which format you are going to use to create them. You can use a three-ring binder, a composition notebook, or plastic binding combs. My personal favorites are three-ring binders and composition notebooks. Before you decide which system you are going to use, think about what is the most practical and easy for you and your students. Once you have weighed the pros and cons and chosen your format, you are ready to move on to storage. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you remember at the beginning of this post when we chatted about students losing their work? That is something to consider when creating your writer’s notebooks. How will you store them? This will be entirely dependent on your organizational style in the classroom as well as the age of your learners. I have had years where I have my students store their journals in their desks, and then other years where I keep all journals in a big tub/ bin on the shelf at our writing center (<a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2019/11/3-steps-to-setting-up-successful.html">CLICK HERE</a> to learn all about how to set up your writing center). All options will work for writer’s notebook storage, just pick a plan and get ready to write!</span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #2 of the 5 Best Tips for Setting up Your Writer's Notebooks This Year: Build a Growing Dictionary</span></h2><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbI4gutd-w913ikC6ZekdL2l5Y4d64av_LfMN3T5RAl3yVEDFbFMDz60W_MpkLiTMphEqSazmIJ6F2ZEER6lxBXDcDzA1O08PlBCuWW1wWvM4Tu_hqW7-WTCqFDaJ4O2V-LDCfHyAnpbZPB-Vb5wwPYhhizg3RBnEj_DLPoO1BK40uxdx-pppwDcxKMg/s1500/3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writer's-notebooks" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbI4gutd-w913ikC6ZekdL2l5Y4d64av_LfMN3T5RAl3yVEDFbFMDz60W_MpkLiTMphEqSazmIJ6F2ZEER6lxBXDcDzA1O08PlBCuWW1wWvM4Tu_hqW7-WTCqFDaJ4O2V-LDCfHyAnpbZPB-Vb5wwPYhhizg3RBnEj_DLPoO1BK40uxdx-pppwDcxKMg/w426-h640/3.png" title="writer's-notebooks" width="426" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-ddebf3ac-7fff-8c6c-341c-d236a8815ff7"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the key reasons that growing dictionaries are so impactful on your students is because of the growing dictionary section. This is the very first section in a writer’s notebook and it is the spot where students will improve their spelling and vocabulary every time that they open their notebooks to write. A growing dictionary is a place that lists many commonly used words in alphabetical order but also includes blank spaces for each letter. These spaces allow students to write in new words that they learn throughout the unit and want to use in their work or remember the spelling of. For example, I never wanted my students to simplify their word choice for a lack of spelling skills. I would always keep a sticky notepad on me and any time a student wanted to know the spelling of a word I would jot it down and hand them the sticky note. They were then responsible for writing that word down in their growing dictionary and spelling it correctly in their writing moving forward. I have to tell you, this simple trick improved my students' writing by leaps and bounds every single year! </span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #3 of the 5 Best Tips for Setting up Your Writer's Notebooks This Year: Use Graphic Organizers</span></h2><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2aI-I1gTk5QhA8WwFYtb5qwG-Y18buL8K7Ax984rka1mcNodml68YfMdnNF_xej7PHdmE0eVJBuHgQGr0Yn4GFLgULoqTcEcM5Igejd1RA1yePY3Ew-cw4-FAojcl7rAswSAEcWh-D2Ukq2cyE3uRgMPIae5EMOTQTvL5gjx7riapvlIfruWrx2fjuw/s1500/5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writer's-notebooks" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2aI-I1gTk5QhA8WwFYtb5qwG-Y18buL8K7Ax984rka1mcNodml68YfMdnNF_xej7PHdmE0eVJBuHgQGr0Yn4GFLgULoqTcEcM5Igejd1RA1yePY3Ew-cw4-FAojcl7rAswSAEcWh-D2Ukq2cyE3uRgMPIae5EMOTQTvL5gjx7riapvlIfruWrx2fjuw/w426-h640/5.png" title="writer's-notebooks" width="426" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-8875adde-7fff-97eb-81a0-82dbafffdaf8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Graphic organizers are often a topic of debate. I hear some teachers say they only use graphic organizers as a differentiation tool for students who need additional support. Other teachers attempt to teach students to draw their own graphic organizers (if you have ever tried this, you are cringing with me right now). I am on the team of graphic organizers for everyone. You get a graphic organizer, and you get a graphic organizer. I am the number one fan of team graphic organizers because I see the amazing impacts they have with every single student that I teach. Your students that are below benchmark will thrive with the visual-spatial aspect as well as the breakdown of a challenging skill. Your reluctant writers will feel that the task is more appealing due to its engaging visual nature. Your benchmark and above benchmark writers will grow in their skills as writers because the graphic organizers will have them slow down and pause to put their best effort into each phase of the writing process instead of just blasting through and writing a subpar piece. So yes, when setting up my writer’s notebooks (or when my students are setting up their writer’s notebooks) we include graphic organizers for each and every part of the writing princess for each and every student. This is a game-changer in your writers’ workshop and writing notebooks! If you want to explore the graphic organizers that I use, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writers-notebook-Writing-graphic-organizers-Opinion-graphic-organizer-4941717">CLICK THIS LINK</a>.</span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #4 of the 5 Best Tips for Setting up Your Writer's Notebooks This Year: Use Dividers</span></h2><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5voWCv7qqmkTCudd2vJM2sxulY0Y65kGnwc_M-NjOhD8i-HkWQmPlX799xqzxtJI78X7IrTOVmubs0Dh0YKqI9qlsv4BzSxtdR4vZVJ9Pd2dRgK0sFxc3ne9hkKcLWJPebwJLhilKyuof8i_aGEao3qcAV9ibrBL-9Kzaxhma7WfgFXanTKuI7rh_lQ/s1500/4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers'-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5voWCv7qqmkTCudd2vJM2sxulY0Y65kGnwc_M-NjOhD8i-HkWQmPlX799xqzxtJI78X7IrTOVmubs0Dh0YKqI9qlsv4BzSxtdR4vZVJ9Pd2dRgK0sFxc3ne9hkKcLWJPebwJLhilKyuof8i_aGEao3qcAV9ibrBL-9Kzaxhma7WfgFXanTKuI7rh_lQ/w426-h640/4.png" title="writers'-workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-06c063e4-7fff-f545-8694-8571d4d5eb02"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A growing dictionary and amazing graphic organizers can only get you so far if your students lose track of their work. When setting up your writer’s notebooks, create a section for each important component and separate them with dividers. I create sections for a growing dictionary and each of the three stories/ writing pieces that we will write in each writing unit. Do not skip on the dividers! This is an amazing way to keep students' work organized and also for them to look back and see their growth from story one all the way through to the end of the unit with their final piece. </span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #5 of the 5 Best Tips for Setting up Your Writer's Notebooks This Year: Leave Space for Drafts, Editing, and Final Copies</span></h2><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEico_yfIf7qBF1xYcVnTpmpPb4d9uXpngzBcBqU-BtTy6JdXVnJ4iopAJWo3HYiMr4QyjC4LV9cfMV9pH5e8ysJOD9orJ-5eSeeea8hnSndxu1e-OHzzokUHUO2qH_KvabDZiMsTWLJM2jGt7ca4qX5fXqi-6siWviOXfOGDWP9kJ1VlwQTnnx9iv1rLA/s1500/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writers'-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEico_yfIf7qBF1xYcVnTpmpPb4d9uXpngzBcBqU-BtTy6JdXVnJ4iopAJWo3HYiMr4QyjC4LV9cfMV9pH5e8ysJOD9orJ-5eSeeea8hnSndxu1e-OHzzokUHUO2qH_KvabDZiMsTWLJM2jGt7ca4qX5fXqi-6siWviOXfOGDWP9kJ1VlwQTnnx9iv1rLA/w426-h640/2.png" title="writers'-workshop" width="426" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">When you and your students are creating your writer’s notebooks be sure to leave room to work through the entire writing process. Use your writer’s notebook as a one-stop shop that will take your students from brainstorming all the way through final copies for each story section. When I set up writer’s notebooks with my students I help them count out extra pages that they will need for drafting and then pages for final copies with their editing checklist in between. The goal with writer’s notebooks is to help students push and grow throughout the entire writing process, so be sure to leave room between your dividers for drafting and all of the wonderful revisions they will work through before crafting their final copy at the end of their story section.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6da565e5-7fff-7a3e-3e74-e2d1cd1c1afc"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Well, teacher friend, you made it! You have now heard my 5 top tips for setting up your writer's notebooks. Writer’s notebooks were the ultimate game-changer in my writing workshop. If you want to explore the writer’s notebooks that I use and love then <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writers-notebook-Writing-graphic-organizers-Opinion-graphic-organizer-4941717">CLICK THIS LINK </a>now.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you ready to rock your writing workshop this year? I've got your back and the tools you need with my epic new writing workshop FREEBIE! This writing workshop includes everything you need to get your writing block rocking, rolling, and make a massive impact with your students! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would love to share my writing workshop checklist, posters, and 5 printable + Google Classroom ready writing prompt resource with you so you can try out the tips you just read about! Simply click the button below and download your FREE writing workshop resources now! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/s3000/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/w640-h360/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" title="writing-workshop" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj272X4sunIvMRTwRZq9RkON9xb0JEPy2H1DoaAqrHtVOucgmU0rHGuiVoT3Kdx_74QHz_I02nAnWY7x7EmFaqyHzKjWcFfRJKLVelYuFC3_iAKQHVT2w71WG1A7rxOpUxgO3H1b7GKBQYIDKR7S8JzLdeJA8BTxh4RlQS4O2l9YC5XpKQNTJfnW8jMfg/w640-h128/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-83091400991341232792022-05-17T10:25:00.004-07:002022-06-22T16:42:07.791-07:003 Tips to Increase Writing Skills with Writing Prompts for 3rd Grade<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-50fb09ef-7fff-4340-c703-841ffedc3945"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmAP4OBbtS7o9YPZ8IJxxlFaKYhO7SbO6F58aY8LufkRDpLBp6pT1JBfrFyr_n28QQAFeArcR2cS8R8ONkeKSLgQdeedLi2HqbFkzABGfSiqLGGS6i8LxiiYO0Zb9sIlmx93n4WGL5-Voj1GTZGyqdWhvELimdJLgVdRE5cYJrxW4THPDzeKwdPi1U2Q/s1500/4%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmAP4OBbtS7o9YPZ8IJxxlFaKYhO7SbO6F58aY8LufkRDpLBp6pT1JBfrFyr_n28QQAFeArcR2cS8R8ONkeKSLgQdeedLi2HqbFkzABGfSiqLGGS6i8LxiiYO0Zb9sIlmx93n4WGL5-Voj1GTZGyqdWhvELimdJLgVdRE5cYJrxW4THPDzeKwdPi1U2Q/w426-h640/4%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raise your hand if this sounds familiar to you; when informing students to take out their pencils for the writing block, you are met with groans. Honestly, I can not say that I blame our students for not being fan favorites of writing. Writing is hard and is a ginormous challenge for some of our kiddos. Many students lack the writing stamina and baseline writing skills to sustain a full writing block. So how do we as teachers help our students climb the writing mountain? I’ll tell you teacher friend the secret sauce is to use writing prompts for 3rd grade students. Want to know another secret? You can start easily using writing prompts for 3rd grade in your class right now and see a massive impact with your kiddos. Don’t believe me that the trick to squashing your students' writing class dread can be as simple as using writing prompts? Well, it is! Scroll down to read my top 3 tips to easily increase your students' writing skills using writing prompts for 3rd grade. </span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #1 to Increase Writing Skills with Writing Prompts for 3rd Grade: Set Writing Goals</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUn-a2z1XQzaWoVnmYtKkaJMop9W7G8R3Yc7RqM__9hTK4st8OqAKH1MQ_L-LOlrB6nodzpNAxtBVm7NClnyld9kDGLEc7vbiWZZTvqDNMOeh-dGdDtxCe_UfDXWeEd2Jc3BAv_08X4YrliaQTlIQ_0qFKLsqc6HZC1ua7DOS4cHFwrQODAyR8cqqaA/s1500/2%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUn-a2z1XQzaWoVnmYtKkaJMop9W7G8R3Yc7RqM__9hTK4st8OqAKH1MQ_L-LOlrB6nodzpNAxtBVm7NClnyld9kDGLEc7vbiWZZTvqDNMOeh-dGdDtxCe_UfDXWeEd2Jc3BAv_08X4YrliaQTlIQ_0qFKLsqc6HZC1ua7DOS4cHFwrQODAyR8cqqaA/w426-h640/2%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else" Lawrence J. Peter. Goals are an essential key to great success. If we want our kiddos to reach great heights as writers and capture more lightbulb moments, then we must outline a clear path for them. Try setting a goal for your writers. You can set a goal as a class to increase your writing stamina. This is an excellent lesson in goal setting as well as providing your students the opportunity to set and reach a collective goal. Pro tip: using a big visual anchor chart is a stellar motivator! You can check out the writing stamina goal-setting tools that I use by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-skills-anchor-chart-Writing-stamina-Writing-data-tracking-Writing-poster-7979861">HERE</a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwTFeabjLY2sp440OoUP5LI2L5Uo0FJDWHUx9DGrXB6nnEPiWZdLN_cFFQbjIxbFL24N_80kwx08QQlTvopQjYDJ2xahktxR0fOFX_jTNXhmoYFejoYnfba6oy7IjiJTm804-ANGZe35AHjuRtLJuBOR2sjHmwbGrlnEncrpx6hbqlbQeHIF0EYWcCUg/s1500/3_tips_to_increase_your_writing_skills_3rd_grade_writing_prompts_blog_post%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwTFeabjLY2sp440OoUP5LI2L5Uo0FJDWHUx9DGrXB6nnEPiWZdLN_cFFQbjIxbFL24N_80kwx08QQlTvopQjYDJ2xahktxR0fOFX_jTNXhmoYFejoYnfba6oy7IjiJTm804-ANGZe35AHjuRtLJuBOR2sjHmwbGrlnEncrpx6hbqlbQeHIF0EYWcCUg/w426-h640/3_tips_to_increase_your_writing_skills_3rd_grade_writing_prompts_blog_post%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goal setting is an extremely powerful tool to help your students improve their writing skills. My favorite method for writing goal setting is using writing prompts for 3rd grade. Each month my students get a new monthly writing journal. This journal is filled with engaging writing prompts for 3rd grade students and a goal-setting page. Each student has different strengths and abilities. Some master writing dialogue quickly, and some struggle with basic sentence structure. Since each student's writing skills vary, so should their writing skills goals. Chat with your students about their amazing strengths as writers and areas in which they can grow. Write it down and get them set to work on reaching that goal. Have these powerful goal-setting conversations with your students, you will be truly amazed at the impact that it has on them! That is why I love using monthly writing journals filled with writing prompts for 3rd grade. It builds in a routine of hitting pause, checking in with my students, and setting or adjusting their writing goals. These goals help them create clear targets for where they want to be as writers. Each day when they open their writing prompts for 3rd grade writing journals, they see the goals that we set together and are reminded to keep working on them even if they are hard. If you want to explore the monthly writing journals and goal-setting pages that I use you can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-writing-prompts-YEAR-LONG-Writing-Prompts-Earth-day-writing-activity-5433399">CLICK THIS LINK.</a></span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #2 to Increase Writing Skills with Writing Prompts for 3rd Grade: Weave in Writing All Day</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9rhwG54s--Vsj99w4p0uq1KGv7VanoVc5grGCyM6WuUNj8YL4ifu4_t7Wz9VQI0yPnoRCvH7wk-yWcYLZuCE-O3PJF0D5Mxr2SgYIO-d4qbuNp34GFstaDQgCL1psRqbNFJXFokjvRi0cGJka0TEHVEeOMtk06KZQhWrcVTOitulWxBxGYV5W_uVDA/s1500/5%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9rhwG54s--Vsj99w4p0uq1KGv7VanoVc5grGCyM6WuUNj8YL4ifu4_t7Wz9VQI0yPnoRCvH7wk-yWcYLZuCE-O3PJF0D5Mxr2SgYIO-d4qbuNp34GFstaDQgCL1psRqbNFJXFokjvRi0cGJka0TEHVEeOMtk06KZQhWrcVTOitulWxBxGYV5W_uVDA/w426-h640/5%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When writing is a stand-alone block in your school day, it can easily get a big target on its back. Writing can be so challenging for our students and pinpointing all the writing focus at one time can easily build a dislike for writing as a subject. Why not try weaving in small writing activities throughout our day? When we incorporate writing into our daily routine in fun bite-sized activities, our students slowly learn to enjoy the subject without even noticing! If that isn't a big enough win, you can rest easy knowing that weaving in additional writing activities throughout your day will dramatically increase your students' writing skills. You can start incorporating writing in exit tickets, silly story brain breaks, and morning meeting activities too! There are countless ways to build little writing skills boosters into your tight schedule with ease. Let’s take a look at morning meeting as an example. You can use no-prep writing prompts for 3rd grade as an easy morning meeting activity each day! For example try using the “would you rather,” writing prompts for 3rd grade to boost opinion writing skills. You can have each student write down their three reasons for a would you rather prompt on a notecard. Then have students buddy up with someone with the opposite opinion as theirs for a quick share and debate. Another way you can use no-prep writing prompts for 3rd grade as a morning meeting activity is to use a writing prompt as a discussion question. Then use that same writing prompt for 3rd grade during your writing block for your quick write activity. Writer's block or brain freeze is something so many students face every day during quick write time. When you verbally discuss a topic in morning meeting, you are priming the pump for students to expand their thinking on the subject when it is time to put pencil to paper and share their thoughts. I love using writing prompts for 3rd grade in this way because it is a seamless differentiation strategy that allows all of your students to be massively successful during writing block warm-ups! When students are not worrying about what to write anymore, they are free to focus on their craft and their writing goals, thus improving their writing skills in small ways every single day. Want to start using the writing prompts for 3rd grade that I use and weave in throughout my day? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-writing-prompts-YEAR-LONG-Writing-Prompts-Earth-day-writing-activity-5433399">CLICK THIS LINK.</a></span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #3 to Increase Writing Skills with Writing Prompts for 3rd Grade: Make Writing Fun, Not a Chore</span></h2><div><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJPh8Bxeu7t0QQ8-tjGAGT5sSrZPX3Z-IdrF6RoA3xnmG5NoGxhpDEDFxnEy7julITHoFLJm02ib33b3OmFW4NbD4T1WcIuC2ROgipMuvBkkvtSD4ZtU7xa3cDJKNbNmuYMc7kFxIEAcZG7FU0hdWTxKxQAt-QMKKqxItcRq261WEHI2sQzSRPhzGKA/s1500/3%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJPh8Bxeu7t0QQ8-tjGAGT5sSrZPX3Z-IdrF6RoA3xnmG5NoGxhpDEDFxnEy7julITHoFLJm02ib33b3OmFW4NbD4T1WcIuC2ROgipMuvBkkvtSD4ZtU7xa3cDJKNbNmuYMc7kFxIEAcZG7FU0hdWTxKxQAt-QMKKqxItcRq261WEHI2sQzSRPhzGKA/w426-h640/3%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If we want to increase student writing skills? Make writing a fun and desirable task, not a chore! We have discussed that many students dislike writing because it is hard. That is true but many students also dislike writing because they find it boring. When our kiddos are disengaged in an activity or task, they put in the minimal effort required to get the task done and out of their way. That is the last thing we want to instill in our writers! To build a love of writing we need to spice up the seasoning and boost that engagement baby! The easiest way that I have found to boost writing engagement is to use what I like to call “got to talk about it,” writing prompts. When I ask my students to write about a superhero pumpkin and a dastardly farmer, or a treasure hunt with a secret map, or what they would do if they were principal for a day, they are simply bursting to share! When the writing topic is engaging, students want to write because it is their ticket to sharing their thoughts and ideas with others. I have a million and one things on my teacher-brain at all times, so I rely on engaging no-prep writing prompts for 3rd grade to save me in the engagement department. We use these writing prompts as writing warm-ups, skills practice, and exit ticket shares. When our kiddos enjoy what they are writing about they increase their efforts and work harder on showing and practicing their writing skills. I love using writing prompts for 3rd grade to get my students excited about writing and working harder on mastering their writing skills. If you want to explore my favorite engaging writing prompts you can<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-writing-prompts-YEAR-LONG-Writing-Prompts-Earth-day-writing-activity-5433399"> CLICK THIS LINK now.</a> You can also check out my other writing tip blog posts by clicking <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/search?q=writing">here.</a></span></p><div><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRZhKn8R_dW__wE3nSa3fyVuduDC7hJYYPNrTWSQVAB5mT5GTmX4roz7W-pS0tqBJ78WK5aonwwmZg2WQrq0V252UDnvCT8S7g0knuykLe4lBkAMzmNLwAnY3oAjL1sSY3nwO9h535or94fAGH7ZlaVFkEHjxF7v7Un2ZGteRVL0W4gmaG_XMvVppLA/s1500/1%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRZhKn8R_dW__wE3nSa3fyVuduDC7hJYYPNrTWSQVAB5mT5GTmX4roz7W-pS0tqBJ78WK5aonwwmZg2WQrq0V252UDnvCT8S7g0knuykLe4lBkAMzmNLwAnY3oAjL1sSY3nwO9h535or94fAGH7ZlaVFkEHjxF7v7Un2ZGteRVL0W4gmaG_XMvVppLA/w426-h640/1%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-3rd-grade" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are countless ways to use 3rd grade writing prompts to increase the writing skills of our students. I hope you enjoyed reading my top 3 favorite tips for increasing student writing skills using writing prompts for 3rd grade. Would you like to try a FREE sample of the no-prep writing prompts that I love so much? Then keep reading!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you ready to rock your writing workshop this year? I've got your back and the tools you need with my epic new writing workshop FREEBIE! This writing workshop includes everything you need to get your writing block rocking, rolling, and make a massive impact with your students! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would love to share my writing workshop checklist, posters, and 5 printable + Google Classroom ready writing prompt resource with you so you can try out the tips you just read about! Simply click the button below and download your FREE writing workshop resources now! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/s3000/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/w640-h360/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" title="writing-workshop" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj272X4sunIvMRTwRZq9RkON9xb0JEPy2H1DoaAqrHtVOucgmU0rHGuiVoT3Kdx_74QHz_I02nAnWY7x7EmFaqyHzKjWcFfRJKLVelYuFC3_iAKQHVT2w71WG1A7rxOpUxgO3H1b7GKBQYIDKR7S8JzLdeJA8BTxh4RlQS4O2l9YC5XpKQNTJfnW8jMfg/w640-h128/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-19669670004447775262022-04-08T13:17:00.004-07:002022-04-08T13:54:27.404-07:00Teach Inferencing Like a Boss with Inferring Worksheets<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teaching inferencing can be a challenge. Honestly, when I first started teaching I found myself Googling, “what is an inference?” It took a good deal of trial and error and years working around the kidney table with my kiddos before I finally felt like I had figured inference instruction out. Targeted reading instruction is my favorite method of guided reading instruction. So how can you teach targeted inference skills? How can you help your kiddos master inferring understandings? Read more to learn how I teach reading inference skills with ease using inferring worksheets, videos, inferring anchor charts, and more.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-fd857668-7fff-3259-9544-20a2392a942f"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJmHmneCI1BxfvmQdL6zN_JLSLA5yhyENh493XH4allTHAH-ECxgNkfkldzq33CEKnCmtsz0vLWn72E-RxdN6nSPhkmNIDulWiY4IwlzMtBKkAVcgIxDLGWwpI_oV8SscsrR7We_UXeFFLyZcjQq0HQEolZS4-36kC1xdT2FxH2F0BM0Yvea1nXMJIA/s1500/1%5B1%5D.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="inferring-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJmHmneCI1BxfvmQdL6zN_JLSLA5yhyENh493XH4allTHAH-ECxgNkfkldzq33CEKnCmtsz0vLWn72E-RxdN6nSPhkmNIDulWiY4IwlzMtBKkAVcgIxDLGWwpI_oV8SscsrR7We_UXeFFLyZcjQq0HQEolZS4-36kC1xdT2FxH2F0BM0Yvea1nXMJIA/w426-h640/1%5B1%5D.png" title="inferring-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is an Inference? </span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I first introduce the inferring concept to my students, I use video. I try to teach multiple intelligences as much as possible, so incorporating a technology component to an otherwise visual-auditory lesson is a plus. My favorite video to us when I teach inference is the Inferring video from Brain Pop Jr. You can explore that video by clicking HERE. I love this video because it does an excellent job of boiling down the inferring concept and using basic inferring examples that we can use as a stepping stone later in our lesson. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn-vJsABaVnJL0LQtKRAwqQW0s3_UNqZI-P0ZmkOJo3Gxk0_Hx_-DPXIj28zYiKhAAu85lTbGUWHbNC9ZzMEar5kXzH6h8fOjTnlI5ctdx8_7Gsru8W17dmUTRgNwm3Cdx_Y2VbKhC-LTScGEpoUW0oN_o2emPnmluLjNkURb1_ZzGBvxvZLoSLOLyUw/s1500/2%5B1%5D.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="inferring-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn-vJsABaVnJL0LQtKRAwqQW0s3_UNqZI-P0ZmkOJo3Gxk0_Hx_-DPXIj28zYiKhAAu85lTbGUWHbNC9ZzMEar5kXzH6h8fOjTnlI5ctdx8_7Gsru8W17dmUTRgNwm3Cdx_Y2VbKhC-LTScGEpoUW0oN_o2emPnmluLjNkURb1_ZzGBvxvZLoSLOLyUw/w426-h640/2%5B1%5D.png" title="inferring-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using Inferring Anchor Charts:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using visual tools to anchor student learning is a must-do. I love using colorful visuals like my inferring anchor chart when introducing and practicing inferring reading skills. I use the inferring anchor chart to break down how to infer, step by step. Once my students have a firm foundation for what an inference is, it is time to practice! I use inferring worksheets that pair with my inferring anchor chart to practice applying inference skills in texts. You can explore the inferring anchor chart and inferring worksheets that I use by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Inference-Anchor-Charts-Making-Inferences-Inferencing-Graphic-Organizers-6332952">clicking HERE.</a></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdARpyAJZSz-Op46jvZLZIKjjC3wruHw7Ka4DCr7rLsVMbR3rkPgQeycN0rqBwACm6ejl59sMwiDmZY_zPz32vCVfMG3ayZb1Sn8Ykc4ftiy06uiLPQj5gvQcWgG4tusnyE_hi0BB3g3J9be_t0IEQaTvu56krs-9BhlZxqt3JV78zVGwtTy2-zJN02A/s1500/5%5B1%5D.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="inferencing-anchor-chart" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdARpyAJZSz-Op46jvZLZIKjjC3wruHw7Ka4DCr7rLsVMbR3rkPgQeycN0rqBwACm6ejl59sMwiDmZY_zPz32vCVfMG3ayZb1Sn8Ykc4ftiy06uiLPQj5gvQcWgG4tusnyE_hi0BB3g3J9be_t0IEQaTvu56krs-9BhlZxqt3JV78zVGwtTy2-zJN02A/w426-h640/5%5B1%5D.png" title="inferencing-anchor-chart" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using Inferring Worksheets:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After I demonstrate inferring and work through examples alongside my students, it is time for them to show their inferencing knowledge. I accomplish this through inferring worksheets. These worksheets are easy, engaging, and no prep. I love using inferring worksheets initially at the guided reading table, then as independent practice. Using inferring worksheets allows my students to demonstrate their inference knowledge and push their thinking by requiring them to provide text evidence to support their thinking. You can grab their inferring worksheets that I use FOR FREE by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Making-Inference-Activities-Google-Classroom-Print-6469509">clicking HERE now.</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0K0zZv1VlzvRiwYKzsE55O0s8dncaO_9B06nensdIbz8hMfq7zJZUPAlswIOcM5DAg5RPOwGNhWKUrjI4y9-YnODxEins7ZQHR3qoFMJyoh4C0JhqgrBAHuWt6avZXmBBYYEnliBP_nXeSJ73nr0XN2GYYt6mMtdh36BraN4NI69RWakH0YxMHZKWlA/s1500/6%5B1%5D.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="inferring-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0K0zZv1VlzvRiwYKzsE55O0s8dncaO_9B06nensdIbz8hMfq7zJZUPAlswIOcM5DAg5RPOwGNhWKUrjI4y9-YnODxEins7ZQHR3qoFMJyoh4C0JhqgrBAHuWt6avZXmBBYYEnliBP_nXeSJ73nr0XN2GYYt6mMtdh36BraN4NI69RWakH0YxMHZKWlA/w426-h640/6%5B1%5D.png" title="inferring-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After my students are getting their groove with inference, I expand their opportunities to work on inferencing. I provide my students with a different inferring worksheet, an inference graphic organizer. This is a graphic organizer that allows my students to continue working on their inferencing skills inside the books that they are currently reading. If you want to explore the inferring worksheets/ graphic organizers that I use, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Inference-Anchor-Charts-Making-Inferences-Inferencing-Graphic-Organizers-6332952">click THIS LINK.</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0kMBqmmb665z6epbXMJ5MpDDTf_2MqK5sERkWPBcO0ECpi_EW4lFbP_5YaqWY7XptzQe4ckr5KubknGEWc2ttikFGT1a1kEcpnueVdVivll9a6LP32mgFEe4GK97cSwevX-9dhmr-epOg-7ObAHxFdEJaVsomhEwPccsXv_YLmpujcMxNhxAZc53FQ/s1500/4%5B1%5D.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="inferring-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0kMBqmmb665z6epbXMJ5MpDDTf_2MqK5sERkWPBcO0ECpi_EW4lFbP_5YaqWY7XptzQe4ckr5KubknGEWc2ttikFGT1a1kEcpnueVdVivll9a6LP32mgFEe4GK97cSwevX-9dhmr-epOg-7ObAHxFdEJaVsomhEwPccsXv_YLmpujcMxNhxAZc53FQ/w426-h640/4%5B1%5D.png" title="inferring-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1BqdHs80XnfrQJ3Hci5h7woEvGHcwRGyyuaVtg8sYeEksjIjVtDz5CEzU3uerU8LIYkGQRR77eW-PQRWAgHkddn_GEtupy0-B95Vs4RxRbSTlX0P_7fp-qofOGYTno-ZG7vBgjB4UycAj6CprFbXVND55RRCN7WpNqPT6Fb83CEr8Zr34zIU808fGw/s1500/3%5B1%5D.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="inferring-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1BqdHs80XnfrQJ3Hci5h7woEvGHcwRGyyuaVtg8sYeEksjIjVtDz5CEzU3uerU8LIYkGQRR77eW-PQRWAgHkddn_GEtupy0-B95Vs4RxRbSTlX0P_7fp-qofOGYTno-ZG7vBgjB4UycAj6CprFbXVND55RRCN7WpNqPT6Fb83CEr8Zr34zIU808fGw/w426-h640/3%5B1%5D.png" title="inferring-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-39617260789273515052022-03-09T09:21:00.005-08:002022-06-22T16:42:47.459-07:003 Reasons Why I Love Writing Prompts For Spring<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit8Opv05d9jxyxn0c--LV6MWwNRxMFobmLdrswx3Zln4348wzN61ocIDFYPDSNQQBCGS9oa54MDRpNlclHH3_lIKGBTjHEQL8gy9_D8QGK40fNChvoeHnpuscF42o9gHmyKSsY0zb2Oz82dAAyvSdUiArhI6fTj9-UeSoi_GUW9piihfoQOxYfyNTfmg/s1500/1%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-spring" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit8Opv05d9jxyxn0c--LV6MWwNRxMFobmLdrswx3Zln4348wzN61ocIDFYPDSNQQBCGS9oa54MDRpNlclHH3_lIKGBTjHEQL8gy9_D8QGK40fNChvoeHnpuscF42o9gHmyKSsY0zb2Oz82dAAyvSdUiArhI6fTj9-UeSoi_GUW9piihfoQOxYfyNTfmg/w426-h640/1%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-spring" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">The snow is melting, birds are returning, and writers are writing. Yes, that’s right. Every day my students work on their writing skills through the use of daily writing prompts. Since spring has sprung, it is time that we bust out our writing prompts for spring! I love allowing my students the opportunity to share their spring favorites in morning meetings and writing time through the use of my writing prompts for spring. From Spring holidays, Spring “would you rather” prompts, and more, the student engagement is up and pencils are moving when I switch over to our writing prompts for spring. Want to know what I’m a buzz about? Read more to explore how I use our writing prompts for Spring in my classroom now.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-daabd88a-7fff-519f-5136-7480ec8879d9"><br /><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing Prompts for Spring- March</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MsmMUMPRM3MTgKlOKc7mVBi-nATTkzv3poYAHyPXGzbLnLZ_k7r2IeqcBxQHFiEj_0QxaN12IHOh5dnkp5Tv_1fDV-x8bHrpPl-20_WsSJ6nlmcPpCF2xWn5mwepD8Ahd2poiCQ6fB5FdA8C0fUEzldt5CQ9pM9iH3wbN610iqWygw7r7a38VdpagQ/s1500/5%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-spring" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MsmMUMPRM3MTgKlOKc7mVBi-nATTkzv3poYAHyPXGzbLnLZ_k7r2IeqcBxQHFiEj_0QxaN12IHOh5dnkp5Tv_1fDV-x8bHrpPl-20_WsSJ6nlmcPpCF2xWn5mwepD8Ahd2poiCQ6fB5FdA8C0fUEzldt5CQ9pM9iH3wbN610iqWygw7r7a38VdpagQ/w426-h640/5%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-spring" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">March is time for Women's History month, leprechauns, and Spring fever! If your students are like mine, then that means they have a lot to talk about and a great desire to share about these events. Why not let your students use their voice inside of their writing prompts for Spring? I love using the St. Patrick’s Day writing prompts as we lead up to the lucky day. (Explore more St. Patrick’s Day activities by clicking <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2022/02/top-4-must-do-st-patricks-day.html">HERE</a>). Students can type or write on the worksheet when I use these writing prompts for Spring. The kiddos love the chance to write and share about leprechauns, luck, and all things green. I love the increased engagement that the seasonal writing prompts for spring bring into the classroom. If you want to explore the No-Prep March writing prompts for Spring that I use, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/March-Writing-Prompts-Digital-AND-Print-5835928">click THIS LINK.</a></span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing Prompts for Spring- April</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFgTK0PRM1Zn065beRKpQcQOy4DbSunaqGxxpyaLd2-qm1dvQebOHp4zEmCH1i6xQDYdCEgXzkcN_X6PMy0HoKDyUzc2Y4L7P_qH1T0vK-txyO5h1osrs0TYapFgtfiOfrFERKBWnp6KVIIaEzN6USLZlbLCjAf2a5cpOw08h4-G6Tf3YveNkmf2e7jg/s1500/3%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-spring" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFgTK0PRM1Zn065beRKpQcQOy4DbSunaqGxxpyaLd2-qm1dvQebOHp4zEmCH1i6xQDYdCEgXzkcN_X6PMy0HoKDyUzc2Y4L7P_qH1T0vK-txyO5h1osrs0TYapFgtfiOfrFERKBWnp6KVIIaEzN6USLZlbLCjAf2a5cpOw08h4-G6Tf3YveNkmf2e7jg/w426-h640/3%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-spring" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April is time for gardening, poetry, and ugh rain! Because poetry is such an expressive writing exercise, I love to use the April poetry writing prompts for Spring. I find it fun to save the poetry writing prompts for Spring that my students complete and compile them into a Spring poetry booklet. Kiddos love being able to look back at their first poetry prompt and compare it to their last. You can use these writing prompts for Spring to have powerful conversations with your students about their growth as poets and writers. If you want to explore all of my April writing prompts for Spring, including the poetry prompts, then <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/April-Writing-Prompts-Digital-AND-Print-5416777">CLICK THIS LINK.</a></span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing Prompts for Spring- May</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIyi87FndC4OGyAwxEGTkWB3JIKKIVn7l0zGhp3Ji3TpVimAQ_vv9x96yaamxmYJh57kqwtIeL50oEZkh2O-t9fVDQeMxVHSNw5wUyQdk97hhcqydvaL5yyihVZ8dOUCyc0Y6WH5dBiZ6JtwoLrJwvT5aQXVj4U0jHg6f90apcsyEglvPRCQbILNfxYQ/s1500/2%5B2%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-spring" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIyi87FndC4OGyAwxEGTkWB3JIKKIVn7l0zGhp3Ji3TpVimAQ_vv9x96yaamxmYJh57kqwtIeL50oEZkh2O-t9fVDQeMxVHSNw5wUyQdk97hhcqydvaL5yyihVZ8dOUCyc0Y6WH5dBiZ6JtwoLrJwvT5aQXVj4U0jHg6f90apcsyEglvPRCQbILNfxYQ/w426-h640/2%5B2%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-spring" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May is the time to help students fine-tune the writing skills that they have learned all year long. I use May to teach and review target writing strategies such as proper use of dialogue, showing not telling skills, and more. This targeted skill instruction can be a bit dull for my students at times. During these lessons, I ramp up the student engagement by using writing prompts for Spring. The writing prompts for Spring that I use in May range from silly to mysterious, but they all have one thing in common, a must-share factor. When I designed the May writing prompts for Spring, I knew that I needed to include topics like buried treasure, Mother’s Day, chocolate chip cookie thieves to keep my students yearning to write and share. By using May writing prompts for Spring that peak my student’s interest, the student buy-in battle is easily won and I can focus my attention on helping my students flourish as writers. Want to use the May writing prompts for Spring that I use? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/May-Writing-Prompts-Digital-AND-Print-5429459">Click HERE</a> to explore the prompts now.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope you enjoyed hearing about how I use writing prompts for Spring in my classroom. Did you know that I have daily, NO PREP writing prompts for the whole year? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-Writing-Prompts-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-5433399">CLICK HERE to explore my Year Long Writing Prompts now!</a> Want to use daily writing prompts to help your students increase their writing skills? <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2021/02/increasing-student-writing-skills-with.html">CLICK HERE</a> to read my blog post all about it!</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrOGreUDJoyo98Ofgfqvh14LFU-0nwF36Kw1oRP-Xnypb_n5u80HA_6H_P-j8Au9a2CSYUlHX9W88mz1UXhZ0FDKtSv3jZRwH9sKYQaMPa7mULfqo3a1By3KnoxRruFDmtanJd24XL2G6KiSypFKDwAUsLZP30EvYBYb1zgYO4ibFyyJchW4GoAncGA/s1500/4%5B1%5D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompts-for-spring" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrOGreUDJoyo98Ofgfqvh14LFU-0nwF36Kw1oRP-Xnypb_n5u80HA_6H_P-j8Au9a2CSYUlHX9W88mz1UXhZ0FDKtSv3jZRwH9sKYQaMPa7mULfqo3a1By3KnoxRruFDmtanJd24XL2G6KiSypFKDwAUsLZP30EvYBYb1zgYO4ibFyyJchW4GoAncGA/w426-h640/4%5B1%5D.png" title="writing-prompts-for-spring" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are countless ways to use writing prompts for spring to increase the writing skills of our students. I hope you enjoyed reading my top reasons that I love using writing prompts for spring with my students. Would you like to try a FREE sample of the no-prep writing prompts that I love so much? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you ready to rock your writing workshop this year? I've got your back and the tools you need with my epic new writing workshop FREEBIE! This writing workshop includes everything you need to get your writing block rocking, rolling, and make a massive impact with your students! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would love to share my writing workshop checklist, posters, and 5 printable + Google Classroom ready writing prompt resource with you so you can try out the tips you just read about! 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Can you believe that it is almost St. Patrick’s Day? That means that it is time for stories of magical little leprechauns, St Patrick’s Day worksheets, and a pinch of all things green. I love celebrating holidays in my classroom. And even though decorating the classroom or having a party is a blast, there just isn’t always time in the school day. So how can you still bring some St. Patrick’s Day fun to your students this year? With St. Patrick’s Day activities and St Patrick’s Day worksheets! Whether you share a read aloud about luck or use a St Patrick’s Day worksheet to help students spin a leprechaun tale, St Patrick’s Day in the classroom can be fun, seamless in your schedule, and no prep. Read more to explore all of my favorite St Patrick’s Day activities and St Patrick’s Day worksheets now!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqAAQrREGm5Kzhet-gsF8vKP-WhEfAxxRYvwTtNOL6o5vXwTatppFVtAITXUlM5p1wAbVzvOB0E678-2ewjeTIMCJgQwhsyynoXCaqgB0jtmW5SRitSw-JmMPn1Z30PqRUzFOswXB8dKGZF0qrO3GUnebM7ZOtQF2drzgWVNCiNcZNPfAYvDWdCDEi1g=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqAAQrREGm5Kzhet-gsF8vKP-WhEfAxxRYvwTtNOL6o5vXwTatppFVtAITXUlM5p1wAbVzvOB0E678-2ewjeTIMCJgQwhsyynoXCaqgB0jtmW5SRitSw-JmMPn1Z30PqRUzFOswXB8dKGZF0qrO3GUnebM7ZOtQF2drzgWVNCiNcZNPfAYvDWdCDEi1g=w426-h640" title="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St Patrick’s Day Worksheets- Spelling Activities</span></h2><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can you spell lucky? Because lucky is exactly how I feel when I pull my Editable March spelling activities out of my teacher bins. These spelling activities are not only great St Patrick’s Day worksheets for spelling practice but for the whole month of March! In the past, my students have had so much fun playing pin and write spelling activities, doing Shamrock St Patrick’s Day worksheets for spelling practice, and so much more! You can explore the editable March spelling activities that I use for St Patrick’s Day worksheets and spelling practice by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/March-Spelling-Activities-EDITABLE-6634085">THIS LINK.</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTlQnPUzxuclyTlxHZ63v30v6qJGWOq4JOTOEvcNn2V3PouKwj86hZH_px8kwBLilv-MPVQY_qlgNbyxJYApwuz0NgMQqC9ptqMtzWL7fgb6BNHlWvveHWuAYEe2WveKRXRMhwvdV0GTirKPwoRy-g-5--vBFqO3ZaQpXOlIJDVfVhCB-EB5Y4p_tDkg=s1568" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1568" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTlQnPUzxuclyTlxHZ63v30v6qJGWOq4JOTOEvcNn2V3PouKwj86hZH_px8kwBLilv-MPVQY_qlgNbyxJYApwuz0NgMQqC9ptqMtzWL7fgb6BNHlWvveHWuAYEe2WveKRXRMhwvdV0GTirKPwoRy-g-5--vBFqO3ZaQpXOlIJDVfVhCB-EB5Y4p_tDkg=w640-h350" title="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St Patrick’s Day Worksheets- Writing Prompts</span></h2><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing prompts are a daily tool inside my writer's workshop. We use them as warm-up activities or exit tickets. You can read more about how to use writing prompts to help your students boost their writing skills in my blog post, just CLICK HERE. When March comes around, I simply print (or assign on Google Classroom) a whole new set of themed prompts. These March writing prompts are the perfect St Patrick’s Day worksheet because St Patrick’s Day writing prompts are included. These writing prompts include topics like how to catch a leprechaun, defining what luck means to each student, snatching a leprechaun's pot of gold, and more! These St Patrick’s Day worksheets make awesome Morning Meeting activities too. Simply have students pair up to write their St Patrick’s Day story and then save time for a share. This St. Patrick’s Day activity makes for easy mornings that your students will love! If you want to explore the March writing prompts that I use for my writing St Patrick’s Day worksheets, click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/March-Writing-Prompts-Digital-AND-Print-5835928">THIS LINK</a> now.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEio9Y9g7E-FGSreFkKzIMYVWw97uc81b3b9z1yAgq7Bkz9Xbe_gyX_wOdgtxAeenOvT2nyPuAD0_iNdL5LlT_9cu3Lxn0VyiLmOtXTVUFUXZOfFj9DSVEgakYxuST_1d7L4CzK0BSOeuwLtxQ8NUvdYK4Vrqe5ZDVML2Ur8yEHEHagzA1xiTgLIEBRFqw=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEio9Y9g7E-FGSreFkKzIMYVWw97uc81b3b9z1yAgq7Bkz9Xbe_gyX_wOdgtxAeenOvT2nyPuAD0_iNdL5LlT_9cu3Lxn0VyiLmOtXTVUFUXZOfFj9DSVEgakYxuST_1d7L4CzK0BSOeuwLtxQ8NUvdYK4Vrqe5ZDVML2Ur8yEHEHagzA1xiTgLIEBRFqw=w426-h640" title="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St Patrick’s Day Activities- St. Patrick’s Day Stories</span></h2><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you follow me on social media, you know that read aloud time is one of my favorite parts of the school day. I love gathering my students together to share in the love of a good story! So, I wanted to share another one of my favorite St Patrick’s Day activities with you, read alouds!<a href="https://www.amazon.com/shop/tailsofteaching?listId=22BK24MOQOQ0F"> CLICK THIS LINK</a> or the PHOTO below to explore my favorite St. Patrick’s Day stories now.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/shop/tailsofteaching?listId=22BK24MOQOQ0F" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0tESibOOOJ6HyffMf9RGJkqR4H4NMhp7bYQ80Dc984ay9KV5rLEtqkhs-92ey_6co0ZMSSW8K6PCMEUREK4Bh5jpX06JjhxSN90HcyyUfoV4k1HboPsDnoI26tLz5sNiKmRJ0I5HtV9EIgfKGCgeykT5KcwYL6gsgQYCRB5pWEdWImqgLJ_9eCNS6Fw=w426-h640" title="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St Patrick’s Day Activities- St. Patrick’s Day Project Based Learning</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnd-zY9e5J2h5H8oZ4IZymsgGTTkVdZh8hRZ6NRuoj_VcjDCTrwnDTyI2oRY-XXGTuxbcLFH8ylkhZ1JZCnlG0h0hEWJtgvCHtoch1KP69tD5Bd45idKpyUkGdbz9LPb0raYrsbzn8jTbsP6GjqWmcTQpp1mzCzwIJ0YMZEECtVPMsYc66F5-fvtzvEg=s1605" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1605" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnd-zY9e5J2h5H8oZ4IZymsgGTTkVdZh8hRZ6NRuoj_VcjDCTrwnDTyI2oRY-XXGTuxbcLFH8ylkhZ1JZCnlG0h0hEWJtgvCHtoch1KP69tD5Bd45idKpyUkGdbz9LPb0raYrsbzn8jTbsP6GjqWmcTQpp1mzCzwIJ0YMZEECtVPMsYc66F5-fvtzvEg=w640-h336" title="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project based learning is my jam! When you can incorporate interdisciplinary learning and boost student engagement through the roof, my teacher heart just signs! You can learn all about Project Based Learning in my blog post, just click THIS LINK. I have found that project based learning is excellent to implement around holidays and before school breaks. During these times students are overflowing with energy and need a hands on, deep thinking project to keep them engaged and attending to their learning. This is exactly why I designed a St. Patrick’s Day Project Based Learning unit all about leprechauns! In this St Patrick’s Day activity pack, students are tasked with designing and building a leprechaun village. The St Patrick’s Day worksheets inside this unit guide students through their building and planning process, helping them stick to their budget as well as area restraints. These St Patrick’s Day worksheets also include math about their leprechaun village and writing prompts too. Trust me, your students will feel so lucky to participate in a St Patrick’s Day activity like this one. If you want to explore my St. Patrick’s Day Project Based Learning Unit, click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Worksheets-Leprechaun-PBL-Unit-7795081">THIS LINK</a> now.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVg0bOdXXwg_oHzG1lneeDJq0_R2uMTAT-Zi05lKOtGwzt4DwI2l-KJJqZ4gnFt2Tj5kAUCOkqUGG8XFmidBeBXyBnx-K802mQmtXhY_WH4m7LQiQpUIsH2OEVVomxBBfCq8nDas9jtrDj7f4BLE-qzO7xq8PLm7BuMOZT6NPP4u-2WBWH034l6aOPmg=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVg0bOdXXwg_oHzG1lneeDJq0_R2uMTAT-Zi05lKOtGwzt4DwI2l-KJJqZ4gnFt2Tj5kAUCOkqUGG8XFmidBeBXyBnx-K802mQmtXhY_WH4m7LQiQpUIsH2OEVVomxBBfCq8nDas9jtrDj7f4BLE-qzO7xq8PLm7BuMOZT6NPP4u-2WBWH034l6aOPmg=w426-h640" title="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3-YZwbm6URaHVhAwvt4w5kojwaMT0W3S8ObgXZLer44eZ6ogy928BtAx7QEXhoJgt5tD-SmGh1nJGgEZn_A3qozyzVIkmesHuXc-fuO4blSsu6AEypfj4q1xyP1AaEPEBDosw-CqyF2PvfUMvkI7NahEWEQAREr5fpsQL4EuW3-Ez_tT6IVsSH3NoDA=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3-YZwbm6URaHVhAwvt4w5kojwaMT0W3S8ObgXZLer44eZ6ogy928BtAx7QEXhoJgt5tD-SmGh1nJGgEZn_A3qozyzVIkmesHuXc-fuO4blSsu6AEypfj4q1xyP1AaEPEBDosw-CqyF2PvfUMvkI7NahEWEQAREr5fpsQL4EuW3-Ez_tT6IVsSH3NoDA=w426-h640" title="st-patrick's-day-worksheets" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope you enjoyed reading about my favorite St Patrick’s Day worksheets and St Patrick’s Day activities! Hopefully, these teaching tools and ideas will help you to bring a little four-leaf clover fun into your classroom this St. Patrick’s Day.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-65314922077485740822022-01-25T09:01:00.003-08:002022-06-22T16:43:08.787-07:00 How to Help Students Master 3rd Grade Spelling Words<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcbjW-CBwQwvPskJ8XdvKOBlyKTFA6t-6Y83NGnS1Ui_ky4z3AXv02UURcPsCfAtZhbNVeDzkmPHY1DtJVhaWf7bsvyYFhxMEjeF6aLvzbX9rbGlKi7ozaTPC2sLUPnaFjAk4fEYbLfwN3z2IgeiLzi6n3FHhoY4cQEJm1XPhJHQQfwG4QW3nBmkwyLg=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcbjW-CBwQwvPskJ8XdvKOBlyKTFA6t-6Y83NGnS1Ui_ky4z3AXv02UURcPsCfAtZhbNVeDzkmPHY1DtJVhaWf7bsvyYFhxMEjeF6aLvzbX9rbGlKi7ozaTPC2sLUPnaFjAk4fEYbLfwN3z2IgeiLzi6n3FHhoY4cQEJm1XPhJHQQfwG4QW3nBmkwyLg=w426-h640" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The knowledge of spelling words and patterns is crucial for our learners. As teachers, we understand the importance that these skills have in reading and writing, but how do we get our students to practice their 3rd grade spelling words? Even more, how can we help students master 3rd grade spelling words? Let’s dive into it! Read more to explore my favorite methods for helping students master 3rd grade spelling words.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhScm-hqIBZh3avnYHGsBLjSM-tI2wFmp396B3_Tvco_UOsJyoAtOjv0ulLNiQGZCuItHv7AdkFhKAcooxF4-9l57arqzRbmVFjw2UlV2UsdsRJV7g9BnqyfFU1VzVpvGkJbqwBW05p1RusSrUIoNVkW4tbneBJBO8a2x0KkRcMTcZijD9v5sr05CL9vA=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhScm-hqIBZh3avnYHGsBLjSM-tI2wFmp396B3_Tvco_UOsJyoAtOjv0ulLNiQGZCuItHv7AdkFhKAcooxF4-9l57arqzRbmVFjw2UlV2UsdsRJV7g9BnqyfFU1VzVpvGkJbqwBW05p1RusSrUIoNVkW4tbneBJBO8a2x0KkRcMTcZijD9v5sr05CL9vA=w640-h360" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: center;">Using Differentiation to Help Students Master 3rd Grade Spelling Words</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">If I was a basketball player (mind you I’m not due to my lack of coordination and athletic abilities), I would need to practice shooting skills. If I master making a free throw shot but my other teammates have not, do you think my coach would have me continue to only practice free throw shots until the entire team mastered them? No way José! A great coach recognizes their player's abilities and customizes practice to strengthen each player’s needs. Teachers are just like great coaches! Teachers know that differentiation is key in driving our students forward. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQQPsIkswG36vsOHhUX4z1Lp1LGIPZbm4NuRREocUUSSELcl-uxQlNlWW1tFZutfkNTZO2rsU6pmLkeQ1qgoZh_fd5mszzM4BCOTW0UgHUUdyXq90MSrNZL8oyfQIe4uKp6JIkNnG3O0qdy3OEK811l2snXF4oTXNefWEHBun_5RD079DMsMZdLzNjmg=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQQPsIkswG36vsOHhUX4z1Lp1LGIPZbm4NuRREocUUSSELcl-uxQlNlWW1tFZutfkNTZO2rsU6pmLkeQ1qgoZh_fd5mszzM4BCOTW0UgHUUdyXq90MSrNZL8oyfQIe4uKp6JIkNnG3O0qdy3OEK811l2snXF4oTXNefWEHBun_5RD079DMsMZdLzNjmg=w426-h640" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Be sure to give a spelling pre-test before assigning any 3rd grade spelling words to your students. A spelling pre-test is simply a spelling word quiz that is given before the weekly word pattern or word list is taught. This will allow you to see which students are struggling with a list of 3rd grade spelling words, and which students are ready for a more challenging list of 3rd grade spelling words. Once you have that data, you are golden and ready to differentiate for your kiddos! Providing your students with spelling words that appropriately match their current abilities is key. Use spelling pre-tests to keep students in that sweet spot of their zone of proximal development. When students feel the next rung on the ladder is achievable, you'll be amazed at how high they will continue to climb!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I am differentiating my 3rd grade spelling words for my students, I like to use editable spelling activities and editable "3rd grade spelling words" worksheets. Editable spelling activities allow me to type any word list into the document and then the word list will autofill my 3rd grade spelling words onto each 3rd grade spelling words worksheet. Talk about easy-peasy differentiation! I love using editable spelling activities and worksheets because I can easily differentiate word lists and the activities still appear the same to my students the only thing that has changed is their individual word lists. Easily differentiating spelling word lists through pre-tests and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/YEAR-LONG-EDITABLE-Spelling-Activities-7101635">editable spelling activities</a> is one method I use to help students master their 3rd grade spelling words.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSmmpw_XtX6GFQJeCke4h0_OVgZaW7LzhmkWL-Vk1_wP-04VoGZcA2iS66OsFzG77dnV0rjt24jyyNvzBYKl3JGQjlvct0mfveV444xHhM1bPhHAsYXMezGSJMW4rvZvGtTPbkNripNPeYaA4S8lmrDrXPCC5U7nmvV47Mpsdu0WGQkPt-ovGZcYqZBg=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSmmpw_XtX6GFQJeCke4h0_OVgZaW7LzhmkWL-Vk1_wP-04VoGZcA2iS66OsFzG77dnV0rjt24jyyNvzBYKl3JGQjlvct0mfveV444xHhM1bPhHAsYXMezGSJMW4rvZvGtTPbkNripNPeYaA4S8lmrDrXPCC5U7nmvV47Mpsdu0WGQkPt-ovGZcYqZBg=w426-h640" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="426" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJqJICk-W9nNL0tKXNHfORhtBgq6QgAZd1kJ_vU4oszClzrjGQKL_unWh9CTbKpv4CO8da0-I9Z-zeUWCkjUInIM4X8fc9XiXJyL_lUXLZk_G1s2Ure1eCuHKHUheg8a2oCgfjQDPClafmYIM05ip4SVg42uJ54yp1cH2-5qBwlyAvMfQwDqf4L6yRmw=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJqJICk-W9nNL0tKXNHfORhtBgq6QgAZd1kJ_vU4oszClzrjGQKL_unWh9CTbKpv4CO8da0-I9Z-zeUWCkjUInIM4X8fc9XiXJyL_lUXLZk_G1s2Ure1eCuHKHUheg8a2oCgfjQDPClafmYIM05ip4SVg42uJ54yp1cH2-5qBwlyAvMfQwDqf4L6yRmw=w426-h640" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: center;">Using Engaging Centers to Help Students Master 3rd Grade Spelling Words</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">F-U-N is not usually the word that comes to mind when our students think about spelling practice. Elementary students typically find spelling activities repetitive and boring and thus are completely disengaged when doing them. What if we tried to change that? I place a big emphasis on fun in my classroom and student engagement holds a special place in my heart. This is why using engaging spelling activities is another one of my favorite methods for helping students master their 3rd grade spelling words. I know what you’re thinking,<i> great another thing I have to find online, create or make</i>! No worries teacher friend! Creating engaging spelling centers can be as simple as adding paper clip spinners, allowing students to draw the visualization of their spelling words, or write in funny fonts! Try writing the alphabet on a pop-it fidget or using erasable sleeves and letter beads for even more student engagement in your spelling word centers!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzdHNbSRA_orDzLzfCCL4vbHGv72qVkK9dk78VQ-vsYgKRdIjR1XtF9tKzxxZSx55SONBDgsBczJgIGsysmbF-rSJWvxTwDFEk8_3zvC6px5bXzv5LA2mt8bkNHpMKoHCNVfcCiYejQIzE3Hh4EHvE6_7Bj9Fg1nbBFiVoOW5a7bgHjPjfVwGf6n95mA=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzdHNbSRA_orDzLzfCCL4vbHGv72qVkK9dk78VQ-vsYgKRdIjR1XtF9tKzxxZSx55SONBDgsBczJgIGsysmbF-rSJWvxTwDFEk8_3zvC6px5bXzv5LA2mt8bkNHpMKoHCNVfcCiYejQIzE3Hh4EHvE6_7Bj9Fg1nbBFiVoOW5a7bgHjPjfVwGf6n95mA=w426-h640" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">My kiddos loved practicing their 3rd grade spelling words using these simple and engaging tips! I noticed a huge increase in their desire to practice spelling words. They also had much improved retention of 3rd grade spelling words and spelling skills after implementing more engaging spelling centers in my classroom. You can explore the editable spelling centers that I use by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/YEAR-LONG-EDITABLE-Spelling-Activities-7101635">HERE</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKh45EC7PcGyB0ZKWzZFiYf5cc8zyRHoegPdaAVShy-uSkXiRAtkYBNQH1bILV2HLhfBHNsZ0RJPFtXkezdjR8sOBNY6IEB-azxrWZO0xywm2eTWnSveT-U58CorvJ5Cf48z-gj8KT1xnCDL0v5MUhY1dye6g3VU569Dejxrt1qmNcH3pWs_2aAf6OkQ=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKh45EC7PcGyB0ZKWzZFiYf5cc8zyRHoegPdaAVShy-uSkXiRAtkYBNQH1bILV2HLhfBHNsZ0RJPFtXkezdjR8sOBNY6IEB-azxrWZO0xywm2eTWnSveT-U58CorvJ5Cf48z-gj8KT1xnCDL0v5MUhY1dye6g3VU569Dejxrt1qmNcH3pWs_2aAf6OkQ=w426-h640" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: center;">Using Weekly Spelling Homework to Help Students Master 3rd Grade Spelling Words</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Let me be honest teacher friend, I hate giving homework! I push my kiddo's brains all day at school. I want my students to enjoy their downtime when they are home; play sports, spend time with their families, and not stress about my assignments. However, I do acknowledge the benefits that homework can have. From increasing home to school communication of current skills to additional skill practice time, homework can really help your students master their 3rd grade spelling words. However, If you’re not a fan of assigning homework like me, allow me to share an idea with you. Have you tried weekly spelling packets before? The keyword here teacher friend is weekly, not nightly. I print out homework spelling packets for my students and pass them out on Monday. I will typically assign three 3rd grade spelling words activities in the packets I create. I then tell my students that their 3rd grade spelling words homework packets are not due until Friday. My student's families love this flexibility! Assigning weekly spelling packets instead of nightly 3rd grade spelling words worksheets allows students to practice their 3rd grade spelling words on nights that are best for their schedules. This flexibility increases the completed spelling word packets that I receive each week and thus my students are practicing more each week. This weekly extra practice is a great help in your students mastering their 3rd grade spelling words.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCnBWTVM6bV3T9hjoECaIdpXUIhzVu6w0iHVScm9GCnSWQ61wnJ0laVPsg1YsuKi1QiwY7wv-cSAtc6-eJI36HEKmmmXGJiEBHpQKRf4ulxTPvlP5j-V_MeIjU3o0g70XEZzV8Fl_DUu4s8iCWrZzZ7F2qHX9v31_j--PHREsKbu-Bnhxm0Pez0SuE1A=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCnBWTVM6bV3T9hjoECaIdpXUIhzVu6w0iHVScm9GCnSWQ61wnJ0laVPsg1YsuKi1QiwY7wv-cSAtc6-eJI36HEKmmmXGJiEBHpQKRf4ulxTPvlP5j-V_MeIjU3o0g70XEZzV8Fl_DUu4s8iCWrZzZ7F2qHX9v31_j--PHREsKbu-Bnhxm0Pez0SuE1A=w640-h360" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I hope you enjoyed reading my favorite methods for helping students master their 3rd grade spelling words. If you want to explore the resources/ teaching tools that I have used to help my students master their 3rd grade spelling words, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/YEAR-LONG-EDITABLE-Spelling-Activities-7101635">CLICK HERE</a> to see them now.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqU9IJtugKCLZEO8gm1Nh5beSVrmHuewYga4K1OxMntmFiSKwFmiXl43myyJQKRIIFj1eoW2iVnayY1WgFWUwm1mlN5psq5KVV1LWapEcvtELUgzasIdGvrZoVm9NWs5-GhaKW5_G7OJQL6bYUABeKakc8-M7480VQpRuYG6jYl0_aUEoehCDbJkFtSQ=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3rd-grade-spelling-words" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqU9IJtugKCLZEO8gm1Nh5beSVrmHuewYga4K1OxMntmFiSKwFmiXl43myyJQKRIIFj1eoW2iVnayY1WgFWUwm1mlN5psq5KVV1LWapEcvtELUgzasIdGvrZoVm9NWs5-GhaKW5_G7OJQL6bYUABeKakc8-M7480VQpRuYG6jYl0_aUEoehCDbJkFtSQ=w426-h640" title="3rd-grade-spelling-words" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you want to learn about my no-prep fall spelling activities, <a href="https://www.tailsofteaching.com/2021/08/fall-spelling-activities.html">click here</a> to read my blog now!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you ready to rock your writing workshop this year? I've got your back and the tools you need with my epic new writing workshop FREEBIE! This writing workshop includes everything you need to get your writing block rocking, rolling, and make a massive impact with your students! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would love to share my writing workshop checklist, posters, and 5 printable + Google Classroom ready writing prompt resource with you so you can try out the tips you just read about! Simply click the button below and download your FREE writing workshop resources now! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/s3000/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-workshop" border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12AFWhsbKt2FuDMBKoRZ-7mvw1KzTWf7IpvMp2Q_ZXfwZoH_7VLldsHBnBMWHBw9fUX3E7Whsy5mZR-QxeBUcP3ohBZDA5-N3dblChFkPJ54KPyWE7-KvO2RDz5PLYLWjUC-FADe1UHp3ZyQcUtoq0qawmppe6c5tAVsULhttxsXucCsXOn2D3c5yyg/w640-h360/writing%20workshop%20freebie%20blog%20picture.jpg" title="writing-workshop" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/writing-prompt-opt-in-landing-page-1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj272X4sunIvMRTwRZq9RkON9xb0JEPy2H1DoaAqrHtVOucgmU0rHGuiVoT3Kdx_74QHz_I02nAnWY7x7EmFaqyHzKjWcFfRJKLVelYuFC3_iAKQHVT2w71WG1A7rxOpUxgO3H1b7GKBQYIDKR7S8JzLdeJA8BTxh4RlQS4O2l9YC5XpKQNTJfnW8jMfg/w640-h128/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-43754060383203355842021-10-14T16:55:00.004-07:002022-02-26T13:39:08.666-08:004 Awesome Pumpkin Books and Activities<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJ97nZrNJFJf9PfbTtGiUAgBECIt5D_9o5RSbJbzbn7ViDG2AW_2_5MrGKYZRQGpJEYVQmqridY2djcIqGmBMc0zETLG7ZAqg8KoeeHcxPBruCFqh3zRwoBhYVTPfvAQev0Is9uii92EUXJSnsfNgoE_6ko4xtIX13AjJL-cwv87GTZG9K_ThuAW8vUg=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pumpkin-books" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJ97nZrNJFJf9PfbTtGiUAgBECIt5D_9o5RSbJbzbn7ViDG2AW_2_5MrGKYZRQGpJEYVQmqridY2djcIqGmBMc0zETLG7ZAqg8KoeeHcxPBruCFqh3zRwoBhYVTPfvAQev0Is9uii92EUXJSnsfNgoE_6ko4xtIX13AjJL-cwv87GTZG9K_ThuAW8vUg=w426-h640" title="pumpkin-books" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Pumpkin spice and pumpkin books are nice! I love fall in the classroom. I especially love incorporating fall themed activities and pumpkin books whenever possible. There are so many fantastic pumpkin books and paired activities to do with your students this time of year. From reading strategies lessons to STEM activities, there are countless options and ways to bring in the fall fun with pumpkin books. Read more to explore my favorite pumpkin read alouds and easy paired activities.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ckywVbBOL._SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pumpkin-books" border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ckywVbBOL._SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.jpg" title="pumpkin-books" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The first pumpkin book that I love to read this time of year is called </span><u style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FK1x6B">How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?</a></span></u><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> This is a sweet pumpkin book that brings students' imaginations to like as they explore larger than life pumpkins across different American landscapes. I love to pair this pumpkin book with a STEM activity in my classroom. I provide my students with a set number of pumpkin candies and toothpicks. I allow them to work with partners for a designated amount of time and see who can build the tallest pumpkin tower. How big can the pumpkin towers grow? Try it in your classroom and find out!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu_3KiX79euN2MoEg_Cp7hdpOlzeHyX2OfuL4mc4p-nYH0VIeII3Kb3N6syaYo9dNNiHPmd6HVfDrEg40AG1PUi-wZDeXWR8Guw3akXHe2RIlkIMFJcjK2loLl3Vu0dTloeKcf9uFkCGOCYL88xWx476V7-h2OLPRmS1wdex-QCqXPQ0x4L4-oUcI23g=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pumpkin-books" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu_3KiX79euN2MoEg_Cp7hdpOlzeHyX2OfuL4mc4p-nYH0VIeII3Kb3N6syaYo9dNNiHPmd6HVfDrEg40AG1PUi-wZDeXWR8Guw3akXHe2RIlkIMFJcjK2loLl3Vu0dTloeKcf9uFkCGOCYL88xWx476V7-h2OLPRmS1wdex-QCqXPQ0x4L4-oUcI23g=w640-h360" title="pumpkin-books" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Another favorite pumpkin book in my classroom is called </span><u style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3BLlBmn">How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin</a></span></u><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3BLlBmn">?</a> I love this pumpkin book! It is an adorable story about the shortest boy in the class and a very special pumpkin seed counting activity that helps him to realize that he is perfect just the way he is. I enjoy pairing this pumpkin book with a hands-on pumpkin seed word problem activity. You can explore the pumpkin math activity that I use by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pumpkin-Seed-Multiplication-Word-Problems-4092444">HERE.</a></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM2ilR5gxhZZDhMAwsUdrPD7KBrEZIUbPSe4oes_UlnpKXJ1H3-dvbhdojwBpBWPvu-KsmXb3_BSYNrSACTUyjYhPwCdWw0bUm91_TE5sl75oNhIJYsX8ibQMNf5xd2edgq5zL6f8kpOiTUjxxGi6jF_itXMebp4ihMUyOuTK_YreCyWogwntcZA2M-A=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pumpkin-books" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM2ilR5gxhZZDhMAwsUdrPD7KBrEZIUbPSe4oes_UlnpKXJ1H3-dvbhdojwBpBWPvu-KsmXb3_BSYNrSACTUyjYhPwCdWw0bUm91_TE5sl75oNhIJYsX8ibQMNf5xd2edgq5zL6f8kpOiTUjxxGi6jF_itXMebp4ihMUyOuTK_YreCyWogwntcZA2M-A=w426-h640" title="pumpkin-books" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TajnufJSL._SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TajnufJSL._SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><u style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51PCrJO04oL._SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.jpg">Christopher Pumpkin</a></span></u><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> has to be one of my favorite pumpkin books! I love this little pumpkin's personality and determination to make a spooky castle full of, “all things fun.” I like to use this delightful pumpkin book to spread a little Halloween cheer as well as review character traits with my students. You can explore the character trait tools that I use by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Strategies-Character-Traits-6430117">HERE.</a></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjk0dgPQzTkidyJ1bcKueWt-cIofm-5iQqoeXMBBPCaFOzXcJjBU1jzwyS7hcdbI96-H2bhdR0CL0aH0_mtD2Cwyht1vupmcyNaGeiUuOBo0rawGESvI3_XSBmuvlYCsylWdUwYoWMG3IjbefwrNFHC9zLTVO4zjP68hoTubPQShZqUdnjtC_QUVZQ6QA=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pumpkin-books" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjk0dgPQzTkidyJ1bcKueWt-cIofm-5iQqoeXMBBPCaFOzXcJjBU1jzwyS7hcdbI96-H2bhdR0CL0aH0_mtD2Cwyht1vupmcyNaGeiUuOBo0rawGESvI3_XSBmuvlYCsylWdUwYoWMG3IjbefwrNFHC9zLTVO4zjP68hoTubPQShZqUdnjtC_QUVZQ6QA=w426-h640" title="pumpkin-books" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Finally, the last pumpkin book on my list of favorite pumpkin read alouds is a book called </span><u style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3DMe9s3">Stumpkin</a>.</span></u><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> This is an adorable story about a pumpkin that looks a bit different than the other pumpkins on the shelf and wonders if anyone will ever pick him to be their jack-o-lantern for Halloween. I like to use this read aloud to review chronological order writing with my students. First we review what happened first, then, next, later, and finally in the story. Then students break down the steps they would take to carve a jack-o-lantern and write them in a pumpkin flip book. You can explore the How to Carve a Pumpkin flip book that I use by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-to-Carve-a-Pumpkin-Writing-Flip-Book-3453470">HERE. </a></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOsrb02E1WQDJu_ApmcJVRDu3J8z-ul8fHuVGu7dkNdgW6kXk9zOU6IxWW7qEJgdv1nq2OBjfhycRktUr9j9PfCaI16Z4JXuNE9Dop2iyh1u0tlx_aepwdW9Xsg6BjSzUSzrjFpilIquxO1L8xXAqh7BRHuiYMznk6KzyjF4manpYxNh_-9NX6qgt6eQ=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pumpkin-books" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOsrb02E1WQDJu_ApmcJVRDu3J8z-ul8fHuVGu7dkNdgW6kXk9zOU6IxWW7qEJgdv1nq2OBjfhycRktUr9j9PfCaI16Z4JXuNE9Dop2iyh1u0tlx_aepwdW9Xsg6BjSzUSzrjFpilIquxO1L8xXAqh7BRHuiYMznk6KzyjF4manpYxNh_-9NX6qgt6eQ=w640-h360" title="pumpkin-books" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I hope you enjoyed hearing my top favorite pumpkin books and paired activities. Which pumpkin books do you love to share with your students?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis11yYwrPP1TZchwwhjKPtWPlZ1mDJCVLOTSw2V6BI4tTP3mTQis9s8nokkwmYr_yNbDihi6YYaM6gVDfOPM4JeMvlbP8K27-OhwirK2tYdR07UmXjoxEluBLvOQ-iCB0h3RQ0LsWuQqn7vHBJsvel-indOlm4WTJiDfOjFdonIUD4P5S2h_AsXvWYfA=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pumpkin-books" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis11yYwrPP1TZchwwhjKPtWPlZ1mDJCVLOTSw2V6BI4tTP3mTQis9s8nokkwmYr_yNbDihi6YYaM6gVDfOPM4JeMvlbP8K27-OhwirK2tYdR07UmXjoxEluBLvOQ-iCB0h3RQ0LsWuQqn7vHBJsvel-indOlm4WTJiDfOjFdonIUD4P5S2h_AsXvWYfA=w426-h640" title="pumpkin-books" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Looking to explore all of the teaching tools in this blog post? Click the pictures below now!</span></div><div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pumpkin-Seed-Multiplication-Word-Problems-4092444">Pumpkin Multiplication Worksheets- </a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pumpkin-Seed-Multiplication-Word-Problems-4092444" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcrRSuoZs_i9LVwwU_RQHW74nIpa2zYivX1G_DTj7IFT0RZfC7-B1RdWbHtcYFQiSRxYerRU29ad0GY-hK43raoikOrQNx5MUSDevKGmQDHXMBOKcgQ6hu7aUCbWk5IlURD9zWjcC43MQinMpmSz-vl07Pc_3xJ9oPK7INJSSmjU8kJvCMWF-bvtnSnA=s320" width="213" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Strategies-Character-Traits-6430117">Character Trait Pack</a>- <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Strategies-Character-Traits-6430117" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="2357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5X0uksta9SEJ0NqpqvqgUk8UlrPiVOKnmvbMKfF7eY3DNyFDSHHh10CS7GDEKMTUTR939M51GCsOEdhBuDWCnsGaiL4Rv8-XHrvwGslUDlz4qkfp2Wlax9Wdsz3ym9gmddG0lTcsUwtBMGTTF4zU6F_nXZc0Bi46VzBBoy-8DP7M_lR-QEG9pUgHC2Q=s320" width="246" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-to-Carve-a-Pumpkin-Writing-Flip-Book-3453470">How to Carve a Pumpkin Flip Book- </a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-to-Carve-a-Pumpkin-Writing-Flip-Book-3453470" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="2357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb4LpNYVIdEDgH_8bwAkeC6SZLZdcZACy0MZwbGVGqsQVR5vh5mAIJUFdxJOAFBj2WRziHvGmOsnXfP_lRqshafvdwOx0KE6iecrmfQJ503NlXQrv1u7KoctYiCeKPqGXHFYCkje35l7wvODqQMk7qIa__DEnOo5G-DaueWdv3Rluf9ZECbhcNtY8z4A=s320" width="246" /></a></div><br /></span></div>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-71719532908683233082021-09-16T14:17:00.017-07:002022-02-26T13:46:07.702-08:00 How to Build Strong Readers with Reading Strategies <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDeoGWxITsMjBV3XQl2xcyH9CMxfiObyEfheSGj1WFvLNLT3vWdIk8auCWGdANbjXGBdsj8H84X7-002XtxeQ4T5UUBcRW4Z0HRM1cfbjh3djurJkT9bcykzsnbFLn-Jg5k7DZFocp86B/s1800/reading-strategies+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reading-strategies" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDeoGWxITsMjBV3XQl2xcyH9CMxfiObyEfheSGj1WFvLNLT3vWdIk8auCWGdANbjXGBdsj8H84X7-002XtxeQ4T5UUBcRW4Z0HRM1cfbjh3djurJkT9bcykzsnbFLn-Jg5k7DZFocp86B/w426-h640/reading-strategies+1.jpg" title="reading-strategies" width="426" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Have you ever played with blocks before? Have you used those
colorful shapes to build a little house or a soaring tower? Well if you have
constructed any building from blocks, you know that one thing is certain, a sturdy
foundation is key in your tower successfully standing tall and not crumbling to
the floor. Reading instruction is a lot like building a tower. If readers have
a strong foundation of reading strategies and skills to build from, they can
springboard their mastery and love of reading. However, when students don’t
have a sturdy foundation of reading strategies, that's when we see our
kiddos struggle and quickly turn into resistant and reluctant readers. Reading
strategies are crucial but how do we teach reading strategies? Which reading
strategies do our students need the most? Well, stay tuned teacher friend
because I’m going to share all of my favorite tips and strategies for teaching
a strong foundation of reading strategies and building a love of reading in
your kiddos that is made to last.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Reading Strategies?</span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Reading strategies are just that, strategies and skills that
students can use to understand and grow in their mastery and craft as readers.
Let’s use this example, you are reading a story and the main character comes
inside soaking wet with a frown on their face. Using the clues the author gave
us, as the reader, we can piece together that our main character is most likely
unhappy because they got caught in the rain. We just used a reading strategy
called inferencing to understand the story and character better. This
understanding may not seem like a big deal, but as readers dive further into
understanding the characters in this story and more complex stories, this
reading strategy skill of inferencing will be crucial for deep thinking and
understanding of story characters. There are many other reading strategies like
the example above, but they all share one thing in common, they are essential
for our students to become strong, avid readers who understand the what and why
of the text they are reading. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">How I
Teach Reading Strategies</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">So we have established that reading strategies are uber
important for our students to grow as readers, but how do we teach them? There
are many methods for teaching reading strategies to your students. Below are
the tools and practices that I use when teaching reading strategies to my
students.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Using
Video to Introduce Reading Strategies:</span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Ok I know you are probably making a face after reading that
heading, but hear me out. Today's students are complex thinkers and learners.
Not all are auditory learners and if I have an option to teach to one of their
other intelligences (visual/ technological) then I jump on it. I have found
that Pixar Shorts can be an incredibly powerful and HIGHLY engaging tool to use
when you are introducing reading strategies to your students. These are brief
animated videos that demonstrate one skill or lesson. These videos can be a
great place to start when teaching reading strategies to your students. You can
explore them <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WyR4AqRweY&list=PLcSsYH_jNXljtm0hqLI_adL5nR3C1Q2ts"><span style="color: blue;">HERE.</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Using Anchor Charts to
Teach Reading Strategies:</span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Visuals are everything. When I introduce new reading strategies to
my students, I always have an anchor chart handy. I personally hate drawing
anchor charts, mine just never seem to come out right, so I print mine instead
and make my teacher life a little easier <i>hallelujah</i>! I have a reading
strategies skill anchor chart next to me when I introduce and teach the skill
to aid my students as a visual tool while they learn. I will refer to the
anchor chart in our lesson that follows the Pixar Short film, during our
reading of a mentor text, and after to really sink in those new skills. Finally, I
make sure my students have exact copies of my teaching anchor chart, which they
will glue into their reading strategies notebook. Here they house all of their
reading strategies anchor charts and tools so they can access them whenever
they need to be it during independent work time or at home for homework. Making
sure my students have access to the same tools I use in my lessons is a huge
game-changer in their ability to practice their reading strategies. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Using
Picture Books to Teach Reading Strategies:</span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">I am a huge lover of picture books (if you follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/tailsofteaching">Instagram</a>
you already know this). I use picture books as my mentor texts when I first
introduce a reading strategy. Yes, even with fourth graders and older students,
picture books can pack a big punch! If you pick the right picture books, they
can offer a strong dose of exactly what you need in such a short amount of time
(something that chapter books, unfortunately, cannot do). After I have
introduced the reading strategy that will be focusing on, I ask my students to
be “reading detectives” and see if they can hunt down the reading strategies in
the story as we read. My students love playing this sort of game as we read
together and it helps to boost their engagement as we learn new reading
strategies together. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<h2 style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Practicing
Reading Strategies:</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">After I have taught my students a new reading strategy through
short videos, lessons, anchor charts, and mentor text examples, it is time for
them to practice the “you do” part of learning a new skill. I have my students
practice the new skill by being “reading detectives” in their own books. They
will look for the reading strategies inside of the book they are currently
reading during our independent reading time. To keep my teacher brain less
strained, I will assign them a reading strategies skill worksheet that can be
used universally across all of their texts. This is such a time saver for me! I
also love that the students will have consistency in the visuals of the skill I
am asking them to demonstrate. If in the following days or reading units I
want them to use their predicting skills, the worksheet will look the same for that
skill even though their text may be different. I have found that direct reading
strategies worksheets work far better for student accountability and
organization than doing, "stop and jot" sticky notes in their books. I love having
my students keep their worksheets inside of their reading strategies notebooks
(I used 1" 3 ring binders). This is because it provides an amazing visual for
my students when we conference and discuss their growth in a particular reading
strategy. We can simply flip back to the first time they practiced the skill
and see how much they have grown. My students truly love when we do things like
this.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span color:black="" mso-bidi-font-family:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" new="" roman="" serif="" style="font-family: "; font-size: 14pt;" times="">Reading strategies are crucial for building a sturdy foundation
for your students to grow from and build a love of reading. I hope you learned
some helpful tips and strategies about how I teach reading strategies. If you
want to explore any of the reading strategies tools you saw in this post,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /></div>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-14331604929044583392021-08-10T11:58:00.004-07:002022-02-26T13:47:59.069-08:00Fall Spelling Activities<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Falling leaves and the back-to-school feeling is in the air! I am a huge fall fan! From apple cider to cozy </span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">sweaters</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and all things pumpkin spice, I think fall is where it’s at. My teacher heart gets excited any time that I can make spelling activities more engaging for my students. This year, I wanted to find a fun way to incorporate my love of fall into my students' spelling activities. I knew that creating fun fall spelling activities would help boost their engagement and desire to practice their spelling skills. These fall spelling activities allow my kiddos to practice their spelling words in fun fall ways that are also easy prep for me (talk about a win-win!) Read more to explore my favorite no-prep fall spelling activities.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7341b713-7fff-de6c-63d7-d63596780544"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin79OkPSvywpTJxhjLjXR4WUD_9VksgTOxtGnwC_SFcxkNgVxTiOCS5pklCj_91Wn398GPsESg1ntiiadB_x6bgJJC_9CQO-m3_BtYeSyN25wrG6Ccz7yLoEWi6vWAvWALfKtJT3ojpJKs/s1800/fall-spelling-activities2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="fall-spelling-activities" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin79OkPSvywpTJxhjLjXR4WUD_9VksgTOxtGnwC_SFcxkNgVxTiOCS5pklCj_91Wn398GPsESg1ntiiadB_x6bgJJC_9CQO-m3_BtYeSyN25wrG6Ccz7yLoEWi6vWAvWALfKtJT3ojpJKs/w426-h640/fall-spelling-activities2.jpg" title="fall-spelling-activities" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The “Pumpkin Spice Pyramids” are an easy no-prep fall spelling activity to use this fall! I love having my students take time to decompose their trickiest spelling words in these pyramids. If you use this for a small group spelling activity, try having your students decompose the word then highlight their week's focus skill when the word is reassembled on the final pyramid step. You can explore this fall spelling activity by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/September-EDITABLE-Spelling-Activities-7101556">HERE.</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPT4XxjdqrWZ3-pNlsox4J04N7JQNUH0gecGqMWmtGtASozCx_s3sxBAUJoa75LYWyQpcVsYI6dYGe28Hy-GW1V2WuazRshbyiu2uG5msCw7mQyiM7wTpXL_guz7d2lXCA6q5eHZdo86Q/s2048/fall-spelling-activities1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="fall-spelling-activities" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPT4XxjdqrWZ3-pNlsox4J04N7JQNUH0gecGqMWmtGtASozCx_s3sxBAUJoa75LYWyQpcVsYI6dYGe28Hy-GW1V2WuazRshbyiu2uG5msCw7mQyiM7wTpXL_guz7d2lXCA6q5eHZdo86Q/w640-h360/fall-spelling-activities1.jpg" title="fall-spelling-activities" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another fall spelling activity that I love is “apple crisp spelling practice”. My students love when I integrate any artistic components into their spelling activities, so a simple practice and color station does the trick! I ask my students to use this fall spelling activity as a self-quiz the night before a spelling test. Students will sit with a buddy (after writing their trickiest words in the apples). Then, students will take turns quizzing each other on the words written inside their “apples”. Once their buddy quiz is complete, I have students switch papers and color the apples with correctly spelled words in yellow or green and apples with words that needed more practice in red. This gives kiddos a fun spelling activity to practice in class with as well as highlighted review for homework that night. You can explore this fall spelling activity by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/September-EDITABLE-Spelling-Activities-7101556">HERE.</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjejV3aRNEFtg8BNXTpnAbqqFNhfSjYk31xNjjmMUNYlFWKXEPvelsQ2raZR3WGitY23k3XFDsltdmktNsxJhZv6ZQ0HhXpqSyloXYH8H8etGIj6kWMWehHzCtpP43eIj0avvw90asI0EsD/s1800/fall-spelling-activities3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="fall-spelling-activities" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjejV3aRNEFtg8BNXTpnAbqqFNhfSjYk31xNjjmMUNYlFWKXEPvelsQ2raZR3WGitY23k3XFDsltdmktNsxJhZv6ZQ0HhXpqSyloXYH8H8etGIj6kWMWehHzCtpP43eIj0avvw90asI0EsD/w426-h640/fall-spelling-activities3.jpg" title="fall-spelling-activities" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Syllable practice is so important. I love the fall spelling activity “scarecrow syllables” for this very reason. Here my students will have the chance to practice spelling each spelling word in their list but also visually see and hear or the word is chunked out syllabically. This fall spelling activity is a great one to use in a small group setting or when you first introduce a new spelling pattern/ chunk. You can explore this fall spelling activity by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/September-EDITABLE-Spelling-Activities-7101556">HERE</a>.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to explore all of my editable no-prep fall spelling activities, click the picture below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/September-EDITABLE-Spelling-Activities-7101556" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="fall-spelling-activities" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1582" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-YqJ9F5qhZk2L70-X7YpuaJdyPWvFnv-0ZQhZBTXGdggdyE_65TExE21qxEvRZSuPb5pEZNdkLKVsv0hX22zGIyQonBB_dHwdJgsg4DAvaQoG71-Imtn39C4TXVW2qafdWWIv4nhyphenhyphentzG/w309-h400/Slide1.JPG" title="fall spelling-activities" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking to explore all of the fall teaching resources that you saw in this post? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tails-Of-Teaching/Category/FALL-540964">CLICK HERE </a>to view them now!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey there 3rd and 4th grade teacher friends, this ones for you! I have a question to ask…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What if you didn’t have to waste endless hours hunting for engaging and rigorous resources? Resources that you can trust to create massive impact and constant light bulb moments with your students? What if you could regain those precious hours, nights, and weekends that you usually waste hunting for teaching tools? </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, your teacher wishes are about to be answered with the best membership for grade 3 and 4 teachers, The Elementary Teacher Toolkit! We are a membership that gives you back your precious time, reduces your teacher stress, and supports you as you grow and teach.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Want to see a FREE sample of what we’re all about? Click <a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/ETT-sample-kit">HERE </a>to download a free sample kit of all the goodness that is waiting for you when you join us in The Elementary Teacher Toolkit!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><p></p></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-46529270605541448702021-07-15T12:53:00.005-07:002023-02-14T15:21:13.409-08:00 3 Classroom Management Strategies for Your Guided Math Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5csQnS3rZ8IAQ2phiQFj8AwdvePIQexlZ_8Xo43lNH1z7j8B024QiVTi3NtSu-RNVY284cyB2B4IeZb9tOL9QdSdHIsDsarzzSMuptnQVE_We8ZkDxEe0El3tLQe1UezXmgXZLiOX1Wa55u07wMWE-qJL6QnFhyGDNxJ54t1zvx9jL7--_tdsdgiQWw/s1500/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="classroom-management-strategies" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5csQnS3rZ8IAQ2phiQFj8AwdvePIQexlZ_8Xo43lNH1z7j8B024QiVTi3NtSu-RNVY284cyB2B4IeZb9tOL9QdSdHIsDsarzzSMuptnQVE_We8ZkDxEe0El3tLQe1UezXmgXZLiOX1Wa55u07wMWE-qJL6QnFhyGDNxJ54t1zvx9jL7--_tdsdgiQWw/w426-h640/1.png" title="classroom-management-strategies" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-9fdfa703-7fff-ef94-bcf9-252dcc219b7d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guided math sounds amazing, but there is just no way on heaven or Earth that my students can handle task time. The classroom will completely fall apart while I teach my guided groups! </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take a deep breath. Better? Good, because I’m here to tell you, heck yes guided math is amazing and yes your students can totally handle it! Classroom management during guided math can seem like a mission that’s set for failure, but follow my tips below and your guided math classroom management is sure to be so rockin’ that you’ll wish your administrator would come to observe you all the time (ok maybe not all the time!)</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv0JFeSiMdj-aUqFPoj6Fp8tS_msH5uueq5uZ6iwsqKfiEJNdnWkJFcYFCjW3VWXhuR5A8nWMWJhhJtPXXxWT6AD79lo6y3kptFGeLM9y9ntAKvK_iafbeJBk5X3H_DaTc5Dgu7rMXGDjtGrc_R3XwZDc5rPzsW36I2w_hIwR6Mi1-h7omsbOcFntBdg/s1500/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="classroom-management-strategies" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv0JFeSiMdj-aUqFPoj6Fp8tS_msH5uueq5uZ6iwsqKfiEJNdnWkJFcYFCjW3VWXhuR5A8nWMWJhhJtPXXxWT6AD79lo6y3kptFGeLM9y9ntAKvK_iafbeJBk5X3H_DaTc5Dgu7rMXGDjtGrc_R3XwZDc5rPzsW36I2w_hIwR6Mi1-h7omsbOcFntBdg/w426-h640/2.png" title="classroom-management-strategies" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Classroom Management Strategies for Your Guided Math Block- Tip #1</span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you ever heard the saying, “have a plan or your students will have a plan for you”? Let me tell you teacher friend, that phrase perfectly captures the image of the first year I dabbled in guided math. Well, what I thought was guided math. That year I had grown so fed up and discouraged with my math block and instruction and decided to find a better way. I hunted high and low and combed every blog post available at the time and guess what, I still fell face first and hard. I learned all about the guided math setup, but no one prepared me for the management shift and classroom management strategies that I would need. So let me say loud and clear, have a plan or your students will have a plan for you! Plan how you are going to teach them the ins and outs of your math block. Show them the components and centers. Finally, active model how each component should be done. You will be so glad that you did!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLugq6cEhQ4N_gNG9JAXcSSe2EF5-h7fi_diy7wnc62OpOLunEpPXgBkDukll8eKez98OoE8NhrvQKhLM735u2duu6A1Gf_KyoIxYnDESlEsuB86ZJQjq7DbinC-EMYbTQO-aXvxBjxGvKj5bCpcJIxKrNDKYJhMvgLoONNJTA4G3MT9_K6IFS2Hhzw/s1500/3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="guided-math" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLugq6cEhQ4N_gNG9JAXcSSe2EF5-h7fi_diy7wnc62OpOLunEpPXgBkDukll8eKez98OoE8NhrvQKhLM735u2duu6A1Gf_KyoIxYnDESlEsuB86ZJQjq7DbinC-EMYbTQO-aXvxBjxGvKj5bCpcJIxKrNDKYJhMvgLoONNJTA4G3MT9_K6IFS2Hhzw/w426-h640/3.png" title="guided-math" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Classroom Management Strategies for Your Guided Math Block- Tip #2</span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second tip I want to share in this </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Classroom Management Strategies for Your Guided Math Block</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> blog post is to set your classroom up for success. When you are thinking about your guided math block this year, how do you want it to run? What components do you have time for in your block and thus stations/ centers you will need to set up? Once all that is laid out, stop and think about how you can physically organize your room for success. I remember my first year teaching guided math, I felt so stressed about letting my students freely use the math manipulatives because I didn’t have a clear system to keep them organized. How will your kiddos be able to navigate the classroom while you are leading guided groups if you don’t have any clear systems for them?</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Want some help getting started? 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They absolutely are! Here’s the thing though teacher friend, you can have the best active modeling in the world, the clearest systems, and still find your math block is a hot mess express by Halloween. Why? This is because all classroom management needs a booster or two throughout the year. As my dance instructor used to say, “practice makes permanent.” So in order to have classroom management success during your math block, make sure you plan to reteach and practice those expectations after all major school breaks.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_dHd0JmB1H0MdVVPpNHgThH_xr2l9Rg3gZrH8ztvSd-Cl5uzAACYBupraxEt08ET8RGf2RyTN5cm71SbLazLpWLi5F3X70G3osk70e_RRRqk1X0U8qugTpLanK_Pz4nRaLOwNsd43-us25gRZmqDWzcdqNIir83KEZYFyLm51Uv-swrWSEa08lO_Aw/s1500/4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="guided-math" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_dHd0JmB1H0MdVVPpNHgThH_xr2l9Rg3gZrH8ztvSd-Cl5uzAACYBupraxEt08ET8RGf2RyTN5cm71SbLazLpWLi5F3X70G3osk70e_RRRqk1X0U8qugTpLanK_Pz4nRaLOwNsd43-us25gRZmqDWzcdqNIir83KEZYFyLm51Uv-swrWSEa08lO_Aw/w426-h640/4.png" title="guided-math" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking to explore my favorite math teaching resources and tools? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tails-Of-Teaching/Category/-Math-410997">CLICK HERE</a> now!</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-1362140135584366872021-07-08T11:25:00.002-07:002022-02-26T13:50:02.060-08:00Math Warm Up Activities<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEs73TKKTLsYbGSImZWDpPVQuz1V13e_Gi4a2jHKUDErRAasjpoGgMafGiCqx-gBgOrK1ybheCeUQohEaooXPoYJLvKTTGrTzZY6bqU9z2wn7uu-NMDqS6idv4bZuh2zb4U4AE904yqrQs/s1800/Guided-Math-warm-up-activities+blog+pic1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Guided-Math" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEs73TKKTLsYbGSImZWDpPVQuz1V13e_Gi4a2jHKUDErRAasjpoGgMafGiCqx-gBgOrK1ybheCeUQohEaooXPoYJLvKTTGrTzZY6bqU9z2wn7uu-NMDqS6idv4bZuh2zb4U4AE904yqrQs/w426-h640/Guided-Math-warm-up-activities+blog+pic1.png" title="Guided-Math" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">You wouldn’t go for a three-mile run without warming up your muscles first. The same idea applies to math class too. We push our students to expand their thinking in our math blocks, so it’s important that we let them warm up first. Read more to explore my four favorite math warm up activities.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c6f8d89d-7fff-3ca5-05f0-4412c1f4ced9"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#1</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Games are a fun and engaging way to begin your math block. Since your time for math warm up is usually brief, so you will want to select a game that can be played in a short amount of time. A few favorites in my room have been math facts around the world (last student standing) or geometry Simon Says. The warm up time in your math block is a fantastic time to get your students out of their seats, so get creative and see what games you can accomplish this with.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#2</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our students love having opportunities to shine. That is why I often let my students take turns teaching a review skill they have mastered to the class. For time reasons, only one student can present a day during warm up time. My students love having the chance to sign up for a “teaching time” and share their knowledge with friends. By the way, you’ll be amazed at how attentive the rest of your class is when one of their peers takes charge and teaches. It is one warm up activity you definitely have to try in your classroom.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwK9gE0ehySK16QHuvpWi7NbG3tGg1IfxUOxBZTW72B932JIusmxEuGPkQhwWa2zP-R4-f2OjY9UeqZFeOdMp6x_6zvleGucTKx4PQq9lN8Jyo65lCVaGfvMo-wroEuCVOVdfkXWdJ_RwG/s2048/Guided-Math-warm-up-activities+blog+pic2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Guided-Math" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwK9gE0ehySK16QHuvpWi7NbG3tGg1IfxUOxBZTW72B932JIusmxEuGPkQhwWa2zP-R4-f2OjY9UeqZFeOdMp6x_6zvleGucTKx4PQq9lN8Jyo65lCVaGfvMo-wroEuCVOVdfkXWdJ_RwG/w640-h360/Guided-Math-warm-up-activities+blog+pic2.jpg" title="Guided-Math" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Math videos are a fantastic way to warm up your student's minds before math instruction. I love using math videos for warm ups in my room. I will either show a review skill or introduce the skill of the day using a math video. Using technology allows my students to access the information in an alternative way to our standard instruction. My favorite math video channels are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9SZgFExNwWTH5T_JnyF-A">NumberRock,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/mathantics">Math Antics</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann/featured">Jack Hartman</a> (for math fact songs). Math videos are fabulous for warm up times that are on a snug time crunch. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBwABivj_OwSiEl01LomfX-ENZIIQiIJMxjaU15mVkYKVal-U1eFpq7_59CmIMcj5A06aGsk7EAgmP7XXVzPPB4HI5AcV2yJS7VFEPlqJe6ZeE97A_c3-9VtQ1vUFnzDrr710TlD49EtU/s2048/Guided-Math-warm-up-activities+blog+pic3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-videos" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBwABivj_OwSiEl01LomfX-ENZIIQiIJMxjaU15mVkYKVal-U1eFpq7_59CmIMcj5A06aGsk7EAgmP7XXVzPPB4HI5AcV2yJS7VFEPlqJe6ZeE97A_c3-9VtQ1vUFnzDrr710TlD49EtU/w640-h360/Guided-Math-warm-up-activities+blog+pic3.jpg" title="math-videos" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#4</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love using warm up time to review already taught skills with my students. It is always a good idea to keep these skills fresh in their minds as the year continues. One way I do this is through the use of miniature white boards. I put a review problem on the board and have my students work independently to solve the problem. I will walk around and check a few boards quickly. Students can not show their boards until they hear me say, “1, 2, 3, show me”. Then students will raise their boards up high. Finally, students will lower their boards and listen as I think aloud and model how to solve the problem. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Warm up activities are crucial to make sure your students are firing on all cylinders. Which warm up activities will you implement in your math block this year?</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupTbmfbqMDRxs2pGxTWNvlfnuIwkrLits_IWFy3av6QRTzvXTPWrzVcC3OjUV2LB_huo9kpXyw2D39p4-TCJVizv0iK0Sc4qKRiktt8jztTLgto5tmoAHhofjesS277ironykccA0F7L1/s2048/math-manipulative+label+FREEBIE+pic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-manipulatives" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupTbmfbqMDRxs2pGxTWNvlfnuIwkrLits_IWFy3av6QRTzvXTPWrzVcC3OjUV2LB_huo9kpXyw2D39p4-TCJVizv0iK0Sc4qKRiktt8jztTLgto5tmoAHhofjesS277ironykccA0F7L1/w640-h360/math-manipulative+label+FREEBIE+pic.jpg" title="math-manipulatives" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Want these math manipulative labels for your classroom? 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I love celebrating and teaching about the 4th of July! From writing activities to read alouds, there are so many exciting 4th of July to do with your kids. Read more to explore my three favorite 4th of July Activities for kids.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a49012a9-7fff-ee31-331c-3e2183a21235"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4th of July Activities For Kids #1- Read Alouds</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 4th of July is a fabulous time to break out the patriotic picture books! There are countless books you could read to help celebrate and teach about the 4th of July. I have compiled a list of my favorites. <b>Click the images below</b> to explore my favorite 4th of July Picture books.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfnCShktNiF0o3Y8uiiWUxaMKhnkJl1ptyNaJTRaZLfoXyKbUuWW9g_TsuCW9cnClXFFf5DaCKosmvI_J4nQSFIs_exc_4Fk-M8tAohV-Abyhaj1-2yvokBTPzOu33-QQOPOxLeuNylgk/s1800/4th-of-july+Blog+Pic+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfnCShktNiF0o3Y8uiiWUxaMKhnkJl1ptyNaJTRaZLfoXyKbUuWW9g_TsuCW9cnClXFFf5DaCKosmvI_J4nQSFIs_exc_4Fk-M8tAohV-Abyhaj1-2yvokBTPzOu33-QQOPOxLeuNylgk/w426-h640/4th-of-july+Blog+Pic+2.jpg" title="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4th of July Activities For Kids #2- Writing Activities</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiRYOPjV0RmmhhDog30s-V48uJu8fEHVYUdu2ZXDtc1kasrmED4X8WdCG9BvXs8cHozyUwfNGdVFaCdQjb3h2YZNZ49rezI-C7ybBwdhgaHesSxY_8y8w5wwxRxwAmeLe7HV8iBQ5cWc8/w426-h640/4th-of-july+Blog+Pic+1.jpg" title="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" width="426" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love writing prompts, regardless of what time of year it is! Writing prompts can wear so many different hats, and their versatility is what makes them so amazing. I love writing prompts to practice specific writing skills in my classroom. But you can easily pair any writing prompt with a fun art project too! My kiddos love when I pair a writing prompt with a “directed drawing” activity. Check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gg5XzYuNdE">THIS link</a> to explore some 4th of July directed drawings you can pair with 4th of July PRINT & Digital writing prompts for a fantastic 4th of July activity.</span><p></p><div><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3gg5XzYuNdE" width="320" youtube-src-id="3gg5XzYuNdE"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you want to explore even more writing prompts, for each month, and every holiday? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399">Click this LINK</a> to explore my year-long writing prompt bundle.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYmbF2-H-Sxk5ZdAkKLiT_AfS-tz7laT3WwdANx8AAPOnlb7DSijlEYgg4XJMh2qjJGtTlxspOiGwzXx8_mJ8RSytHprZtOPTgwxeF6Wh8Jf8JMaN3YFDqzTMkE-jy_Z2Cj0lS1FhZ9I1/w640-h360/4th-of-july+blog+pic+3.jpg" title="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4th of July Activities For Kids #3-Online Skills Practice</span></h3><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0RjbcnyqQc8Ktlrl-_Jmay0pJ75d90lxyQoVQJy_xoBPnjEEFSZIuD_4txIor3WkLs6k5vuNmbb3aqsPN0tPyNVx1zxq9MYx6dmTPlewhkMzy3YPM9VWYv-HIr7K0bUwH-qmFlfDHHljD/s2048/4th-of-july+blog+pic+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0RjbcnyqQc8Ktlrl-_Jmay0pJ75d90lxyQoVQJy_xoBPnjEEFSZIuD_4txIor3WkLs6k5vuNmbb3aqsPN0tPyNVx1zxq9MYx6dmTPlewhkMzy3YPM9VWYv-HIr7K0bUwH-qmFlfDHHljD/w640-h360/4th-of-july+blog+pic+4.jpg" title="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holiday themes make my teacher heart happy. I love making festive learning opportunities for my students to learn and grow. While practicing verb tense last year, I knew my students would love something visually engaging and fun, and I needed something that still brought the rigor. So I created a 4th of July digital interactive notebook for verb tense and it was an overwhelming hit! If you would like to have this FREEBIE for your kiddos too, just click the <a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/math4th-of-July-FREEBIE-optin">download link </a>now!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/math4th-of-July-FREEBIE-optin" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbxfyNYPCsWNxqvtjBz1i82go78R5tmReMpuwc7IRuZXUuSUlYmGYI4cgz18vf73kVceOh-km8MoOm8cddZp8Rc84fYMkHBuPZ4Ba0n21vDcENSl1swuMipqn95UePjqQ6fs74xnJAZa6/w640-h360/4th-of-july+blog+pic+5.jpg" title="4th-of-july-activities-for-kids" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/math4th-of-July-FREEBIE-optin" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkLJNEQnj10HsHVhr9cy0NfKIBlauKBo6ofdP9e8TF59ur2pz10TmEN7d3Csfhd-7QJnsbsQv6WXf5SKe9Vg-QdiwaJ3iuolP8JVM_SYut4aAbVaRnkLr0PiTcMkmFifnjBxNkJGPGz301/w640-h128/Slide2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Looking to explore my favorite Summer teaching resources and tools? </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tails-Of-Teaching/Category/SUMMER-540963" style="font-size: x-large;">CLICK HERE</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> now!</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-71146135273272000182021-07-01T16:47:00.002-07:002022-02-26T13:50:16.212-08:00 3 Tips to Keep Your Math Manipulatives Organized All Year Long<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheufijXLxgaVgY5Mu83B8SYV1eIRCQPlhNOjdqmXink7kNix7Ce7Aegjg-pPoX3iJpoY3tQNmeWdnBeg1-EDizCZtS5BcncFORM7Zc3_uQ5VxvMNyrRrXtvogRPRYW1pjAvVGYb4Fjpvrq/s1800/math-manipulatives-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-manipulatives" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheufijXLxgaVgY5Mu83B8SYV1eIRCQPlhNOjdqmXink7kNix7Ce7Aegjg-pPoX3iJpoY3tQNmeWdnBeg1-EDizCZtS5BcncFORM7Zc3_uQ5VxvMNyrRrXtvogRPRYW1pjAvVGYb4Fjpvrq/w426-h640/math-manipulatives-3.jpg" title="math-manipulatives" width="426" /></a></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3ef6c610-7fff-a0ac-9eb8-a41cb669b2b9"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Do you see how those fraction pieces line up perfectly? That shows that they are equivalent.” This and countless similar conversations take place at my guided math table every year with the help of our math manipulatives. I adore math manipulatives! If we’re being honest, I am kind of obsessed with math manipulatives. If there's a teacher who is getting rid of old supplies, a yard sale on my block, or a rockin’ Amazon deal on math manipulatives then I am all over it! I love the way math manipulatives gift my students the opportunity to see, touch, and explore math concepts. As amazing as math manipulatives are, how do you keep them all organized? How do you teach your students to return your math manipulatives to a special space and keep your math block running smoothly? As I say to my students, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">don’t fret!</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Over the years I’ve come up with three messy-class-proof ways to organize and maintain your math manipulative station. Read more to learn my top three tips for keeping your math manipulatives organized all year long.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #1 to Keep Your Math Manipulatives Organized All Year Long- Use Pictures</span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I used to store my math manipulatives in labeled bins. Clear enough for organizational ease right? Not exactly. Remember teacher friend, you are not the only one using your math manipulatives, your kiddos are too. Keep organization simple for them by adding pictures to your math manipulative labels! You would be amazed at how seamlessly math manipulatives are returned to their correct containers once a visual cue is involved! It’s not that students are unable to read math manipulative labels, but I have found the visual picture cues are all the nudge they need to keep our math manipulative station looking spick and span. No more picking unifix cubes out of the one's tub (can I get a woot woot!)</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Want these math manipulative labels for your classroom? THEY’RE FREE! Just <a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/math-manipulative-freebie" target="_blank">click HERE</a> or the picture below to download your FREE math manipulative labels now!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/math-manipulative-freebie" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="math-manipulatives" data-original-height="935" data-original-width="935" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4-du9I6nEcdxiXNnq_T7JlzbnMm-kVSF6iHAmMhPqLSFD39Bd0daNMnClCYyPqqiDXdsz5NQlw0-IloNywLRw8tJx2G_33DYO-bFWQQyEf6xCi87KaTjnaYUMUGONcB3GVNjkMwnf2oU/w400-h400/210998554_509950943407831_5070691706975887594_n.jpg" title="math-manipulatives" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #2 to Keep Your Math Manipulatives Organized All Year Long- Keep it Easily Accessible </span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Want your kiddos to explore, use, and return math manipulatives? Keep them easily available to access and put away. I have found that the more difficult/ inconveniently placed the math tools are, the more likely they will be shoved in someone's desk (insert teacher groan) and less likely to be returned to where they belong. In my classroom, I keep my math manipulatives on a low shelf that is easy for my students to access and reach. Easy to access and easy to return is the key here. Additionally, I store all my math manipulatives under my math bulletin board. This makes it easy for my students to find and remember where all the math tools are should they need to use them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsf2GI7yU9K0m2tZPiLyZ_LWppjYczFAlHxC0OYb-95eyNA7XvioBQ3XCEBfMRgLMbsT7rBw3zlnvOOha8GZQ3s7byLW1gXEdJpGDefg2a40iP_yZuTgVpGAt-7siGt8AhNmEQCvBZDk2h/s2048/math-manipulatives-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-manipulatives" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsf2GI7yU9K0m2tZPiLyZ_LWppjYczFAlHxC0OYb-95eyNA7XvioBQ3XCEBfMRgLMbsT7rBw3zlnvOOha8GZQ3s7byLW1gXEdJpGDefg2a40iP_yZuTgVpGAt-7siGt8AhNmEQCvBZDk2h/w640-h360/math-manipulatives-2.jpg" title="math-manipulatives" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tip #3 to Keep Your Math Manipulatives Organized All Year Long- Teach and Reteach Expectations</span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As teachers, we know that the key to any good classroom practice is clear expectations. I spend ample time at the beginning of the year teaching my math block expectations. I take time to model how each part of the math block should look and sound. Seems easy enough right? You can even take real photos of your kids doing an amazing job at each math station and post it on your math bulletin board as another visual cue (they love this!) It is easy, but no amount of active modeling will keep your math block running smoothly all year. If you want your math manipulatives to stay organized and not turn into a chaos corner, you will have to do expectation booster lessons at various points throughout the year. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFetsHa9IerQ_3D7d5Ask0lltz_1B_K6fg9tUffvpuE63O_Z1cTVFbRCryivVJjfHZKsGZr34uWZYC_Rv6KRYXT0m4eZHH_Ad_D4njgjNZltn9IOhH6oFQv1x_5CQVKtfBIz-3Td_CHFw/s1800/math-manipulatives-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-manipulatives" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFetsHa9IerQ_3D7d5Ask0lltz_1B_K6fg9tUffvpuE63O_Z1cTVFbRCryivVJjfHZKsGZr34uWZYC_Rv6KRYXT0m4eZHH_Ad_D4njgjNZltn9IOhH6oFQv1x_5CQVKtfBIz-3Td_CHFw/w426-h640/math-manipulatives-4.jpg" title="math-manipulatives" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There you have it teacher friend, my top three tips for keeping your math manipulatives organized all year long. How will you implement these tips in your classroom? I would love to see your setup! Tag me in your math manipulative organization photos on Instagram at <a href="http://Instagram.com/TailsofTeaching">Instagram.com/TailsofTeaching</a> . </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Wait you almost forgot!</b> Remember to grab your FREE math manipulative labels! Click the download button below to get you FREE math manipulative labels now.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/math-manipulative-freebie" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="teacher-freebie" border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUelYR4E-vgG73ZS9OzgzrURCqLnEGz48FTt9Iu8x8PSy90tVcrwruEA2pdGpW7pdCY25SC0nv9VJ-bsjr4SPr2fOtLwu-HrrBUpLddXtEb7uxgbffIdZXh2EswzH2uiB8iknCo9aizT3J/w640-h128/Slide2.JPG" title="teacher-freebie" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGmJQU8nn_r17SriN6z-J6HgL_MW66x_7LivVHXNajDf9bjL5e14jsaWyimJxj_sJexuMCt3SJr9fpeHTbQcvIOkPlsUq7X0gSWDh7E7rPA9siSHvzPL6z9xQ9QNxZNwuZjq3rZi_24p7/s2048/math-manipulatives-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-manipulatives" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGmJQU8nn_r17SriN6z-J6HgL_MW66x_7LivVHXNajDf9bjL5e14jsaWyimJxj_sJexuMCt3SJr9fpeHTbQcvIOkPlsUq7X0gSWDh7E7rPA9siSHvzPL6z9xQ9QNxZNwuZjq3rZi_24p7/w640-h360/math-manipulatives-1.jpg" title="math-manipulatives" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Looking to explore my favorite math teaching resources and tools? </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tails-Of-Teaching/Category/-Math-410997" style="font-size: x-large;">CLICK HERE</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> now!</span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-42770024240010825702021-06-24T14:29:00.004-07:002022-02-26T13:50:29.425-08:00The 3 Best Math Websites for Kids<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-r6eTqQCWAP_DchCTQa8r71F8CKzUKU444RCnR2MVb11PsEMhINARxd3IpQB12kACbNZ8wkidojzNM0PveZegpuzvP2Ka9vI-nilk6hOIL86AaHC-ca9MRHQsL1jT5XTCumzKMT34D04y/s1800/best-math-websites+pic3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-website-for-kids" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-r6eTqQCWAP_DchCTQa8r71F8CKzUKU444RCnR2MVb11PsEMhINARxd3IpQB12kACbNZ8wkidojzNM0PveZegpuzvP2Ka9vI-nilk6hOIL86AaHC-ca9MRHQsL1jT5XTCumzKMT34D04y/w426-h640/best-math-websites+pic3.jpg" title="math-website-for-kids" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you incorporate “tech time” into your guided math routine? Technology time is one of the key stations inside my block routine and it is one that I love. Why? I love how technology offers countless engaging learning opportunities and creates seamless differentiation with ease. There are so many amazing math websites out there, so how do you know which ones are the best math websites to use with your elementary students? How do you know which site is the best math website for kids in your classroom to use? Well, teacher friend, I have used “tech time” in my math station set up for many years, and today I am sharing the top three FREE websites that I feel are the best math websites to use in your elementary math block. Read more to find out what each of these rockin’ sites is all about!</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d0855e43-7fff-9302-bb58-18c2d10f2b5b"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Math Website for Kids #1- Prodigygame.com</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you follow me on Instagram (<a href="http://instagram.com/tailsofteaching" target="_blank">@tailsofteaching</a>), you have heard me talk about Prodigy before. Prodigy is one of my top three choices for best math websites hands down! So what is Prodigy and why do I think it’s one of the best math websites for elementary students? Prodigy is a standards aligned, game based, math practice site. I love it and so do my kiddos! As a teacher, I love that the site is engaging, Common Core aligned and provides me with easy data readouts about my kiddos. My students think Prodigy is a fantastic math website for kids for the simple reason that it makes math fun! Any time my students can have fun while practicing their math skills makes my teacher heart so happy. You can explore Prodigy by clicking <a href="http://prodigygame.com" target="_blank">HERE.</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11UnnUs0PZlEnJKCQqRLVmQoSL4aRfunwGc9CBh3tMuRJdUWziZepGReWc9sYb0r4Vi506JRrCzAIjKetveDofFR6-iSlW5n3DHwO28PEzhFXO9bbecUfxCRPI_n8OQU49-XihF40nGp4/s1800/best-math-websites+pic2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-website-for-kids" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11UnnUs0PZlEnJKCQqRLVmQoSL4aRfunwGc9CBh3tMuRJdUWziZepGReWc9sYb0r4Vi506JRrCzAIjKetveDofFR6-iSlW5n3DHwO28PEzhFXO9bbecUfxCRPI_n8OQU49-XihF40nGp4/w426-h640/best-math-websites+pic2.jpg" title="math-website-for-kids" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Math Website for Kids #2- Zearn.org</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zearn is my math website jam! I discovered Zearn.org this year and can I just say it is a game-changer! Zearn is on my list of three best math websites for elementary students because it offers engaging instruction, practice, and games all in one place! It is definitely one of the best free math websites I have ever used and a favorite in my classroom. If you are looking for an all inclusive </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">math website for kids, this is definitely the one to pick! You can explore Zearn by clicking <a href="http://zearn.org" target="_blank">HERE.</a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Math Website for Kids #3- XtraMath.org</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As elementary teachers, we can all agree that math fact skills are a MUST! I build math fact practice into my math learning centers every single day. If you have access to technology in your classroom, XtraMath is an easy way for students to practice their math fact skills. You simply create your class roster, assign which level of fact practice you want your students to work on, and go! Your students will practice digital math fact flashcards and easily build math fact fluency! XtraMath also provides you with data to easily see which facts your kiddos are crushing or struggling with. For these reasons, XtraMath is definitely on my top three list of free best math websites. You can explore Xtramath by clicking <a href="http://xtramath.org" target="_blank">THIS</a> link.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3fAfWd5sqi5PUpp6P-VLSYsvMSi0zsZwMKDp4-uNby2ct6bcmYS7vbvm1tZU7Fo8Rtmbs1kw2PyBoRf6lyNob5WukOiMXRkJApFzpgDeu_h0_995mhVukcRTJrNQ7uCh8rMab2jD8VnB/s1800/best-math-websites+pic1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="math-website-for-kids" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3fAfWd5sqi5PUpp6P-VLSYsvMSi0zsZwMKDp4-uNby2ct6bcmYS7vbvm1tZU7Fo8Rtmbs1kw2PyBoRf6lyNob5WukOiMXRkJApFzpgDeu_h0_995mhVukcRTJrNQ7uCh8rMab2jD8VnB/w426-h640/best-math-websites+pic1.jpg" title="math-website-for-kids" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Would you like to snag a math FREBIE for your class? 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that we are here already? Is it just me teacher friend, or does the end of the
school year creep up on you too? It feels like yesterday was September and we
were welcoming a new group of kiddos, and now Summer vacation is right around the
corner! But what do you do with your kiddos in those final days before Summer
vacation? What lessons or activities for the end of the school year will leave
a lasting impression on your student? As the end of the school year bounds
towards us, I thought I would share some of my favorite activities for the end
of the school year. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of the School Year: End of the Year Read Alouds</span></h2>
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something that's near and dear to my heart. As the school year winds to a
close, there are so many emotions for our students to process; stress, anxiety,
excitement, loss, joy, worry, and happiness just to name a few. One way to help
students make sense of the crazy emotion stew that’s brewing inside of them is
to share and discuss these emotions in a story. Below I have linked some of my
favorite end of the year read aloud stories. These read alouds and a hearty
discussion after, are great activities for the end of the school year. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of the School Year: End of the Year Awards</span></h2>
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awards at the end of the year. We host a little class party and each child gets
a chance to be recognized for something wonderful. Core values and character
education are a big part of my teachings each year, so I use end of the year
awards that reflect that importance. Instead of giving my kiddos silly end of
the year awards, I recognize each student for a character trait we learned
during the year. For example, students in my room may receive an Integrity
award or an award for showing great Compassion. I love this end of the year
activity because my students are so proud when they receive their awards. Click
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/EDITABLE-End-of-the-Year-Awards-5558578" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/EDITABLE-End-of-the-Year-Awards-5558578" target="_blank"> </a>to check out the class awards I use.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of the School Year: End of the Year Countdown Calendar </span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love countdown
calendars and so do my students! I take the number of students I have and count
backward from our school closing date. On all of those days in between, we
celebrate specific students! On their special day in the countdown, the chosen
student will sit at our VIP desk and everyone else will write them compliments
on our whiteboard to start the day. I teach students all about giving
compliments and celebrating one another. You can do many creative visuals for
countdown calendars. From balloon pops to spinners, there are so many fun ways
to countdown and celebrate your students in this fun end of the year activity.
Check out the VIP student resource I use, click </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;"><a href="http://HERE.">HERE.</a></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Student-VIP-Desk-End-of-the-Year-Activity-5558733" target="_blank"> </a>If you are distance learning, do a video countdown calendar!
Record little videos each day that help students count down to the last day of
school. This is what I will be going this year, along with mailing my kiddos
their VIP badge and end of the year awards.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of the School Year: End of the Year Student Gifts</span></h2>
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spend together, my students and I become a little family. At the end of each
year, I like to get them a little parting gift to say thank you for the time we
spent together and the memories that were made. How is a student gift an
activity for the end of the school year you may be wondering? Well, I like to
give my kiddos gifts that they can play with. For example, I might give them a
colorful chalk pack then take them outside to make a giant mural together, or
coloring books that we can go outside and color together on the last day of
school. If you’re looking for student gift ideas that you can also use for
activities to end the school year, CLICK <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-Year-Gift-Tags-6896703" target="_blank">HERE</a> to check out my student gift tags for some
inspiration and ready to go gift tags!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of the School Year: End of the Year Student Memory Books</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15q79mLQlK7rXjPYTxXGb2yab-LAeSUHBYUWXGjc8K-BUjNlj_ZiMt3ilEGkQDz943URYLS2bHQ-BuSg5GKdX3Z6yH6xWc_pb6ly7qsax_w2CHaR4dW6vmBtqqk9jA6U5LYVwiWGEdDlU/s1800/activities-for-the-end-of-the-school-year+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="activities-for-the-end-of-the-school-year" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15q79mLQlK7rXjPYTxXGb2yab-LAeSUHBYUWXGjc8K-BUjNlj_ZiMt3ilEGkQDz943URYLS2bHQ-BuSg5GKdX3Z6yH6xWc_pb6ly7qsax_w2CHaR4dW6vmBtqqk9jA6U5LYVwiWGEdDlU/w426-h640/activities-for-the-end-of-the-school-year+1.jpg" title="activities-for-the-end-of-the-school-year" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of my all-time
favorite activities for the end of the school year is a student memory book! At
the end of each year, I make memory books for my students. This is similar to a
yearbook. Memory books are a fun way for students to reflect, write/ draw about
their year, and gather friends’ autographs. Memory books are always a fan
favorite in my classroom and one of my favorite end of the year activities as
well! Click </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tails-Of-Teaching/Category/-End-of-the-Year-297657" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tails-Of-Teaching/Category/-End-of-the-Year-297657" target="_blank"> </a>to check out the memory books I use.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There are so many activities for the end of the school year, but the most </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">important</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> are the activities that build memories for you and your students. So soak it all in teacher friend, because you have conquered another year and now it is time to celebrate and have fun with your kiddos!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><o:p>Looking to explore all of my favorite end of the year teaching resources? <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tails-Of-Teaching/Category/-End-of-the-Year-297657">CLICK HERE</a> now!</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey there 3rd and 4th grade teacher friends, this ones for you! I have a question to ask…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What if you didn’t have to waste endless hours hunting for engaging and rigorous resources? Resources that you can trust to create massive impact and constant light bulb moments with your students? What if you could regain those precious hours, nights, and weekends that you usually waste hunting for teaching tools? </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, your teacher wishes are about to be answered with the best membership for grade 3 and 4 teachers, The Elementary Teacher Toolkit! We are a membership that gives you back your precious time, reduces your teacher stress, and supports you as you grow and teach.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Want to see a FREE sample of what we’re all about? Click <a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/ETT-sample-kit">HERE </a>to download a free sample kit of all the goodness that is waiting for you when you join us in The Elementary Teacher Toolkit!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-89904336661264515502021-02-24T14:26:00.007-08:002022-06-22T16:43:37.519-07:00Increase Student Writing Skills with 4th Grade Writing Prompts<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrK5vW5LJmiJNyRf75Tr8eLTlJgfLQH2ffhDUlQmR9vzEXjqEe55nsS-N8I1G_VbtcNMSwLuMYYzOqV6_jmg1hd88Nj92L-qSNofEUcLEVhlhKLH-VekvLBnb41mU_33u1pjB_xYasy-qL/s1800/4th-grade-writing-prompts+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-grade-writing-prompts" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrK5vW5LJmiJNyRf75Tr8eLTlJgfLQH2ffhDUlQmR9vzEXjqEe55nsS-N8I1G_VbtcNMSwLuMYYzOqV6_jmg1hd88Nj92L-qSNofEUcLEVhlhKLH-VekvLBnb41mU_33u1pjB_xYasy-qL/w426-h640/4th-grade-writing-prompts+2.jpg" title="4th-grade-writing-prompts" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Let’s chat about
writing skills. Increasing and maintaining your students' writing skills can be
tricky. There is so much to teach and reach mastery on. Then, how do you
maintain those precious writing skills? Maintaining writing skill mastery is
all about practice. I had a dance instructor who would always tell us,
“practice makes permanent.” This quote has stuck with me as a person and a
teacher. I know what you’re thinking, daily practice sounds great, but that’s
more resources to hunt for and more to prep, and when do I find the time! I’m
here to tell you not to fret! Seriously, take a deep breath teacher friend,
because I’ve got your back and I can’t wait to share all the easy ways that you
can increase your student's writing skills through the use of 4th grade writing
prompts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="4th-grade-writing-prompts" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_8hNvHKRLZ6bqdgCfogL18mtJ0HAnCb31KDsYJOvKTW_T_wjA64xmPjYPMOn14tzkMfgVN8Tbt2l-JnJOW630mwLdn3ADGas_4aqBRClu5hcn4A90fk83r7debte67wtmZyp8AkW7L9o/w426-h640/4th-grade-writing-prompts+5.jpg" title="4th-grade-writing-prompts" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Using 4th Grade Writing
Prompts for Warm Up Activities:</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Warm up activities are
a fabulous way to use 4th grade writing prompts to help your kiddos grow. I set
a timer at the beginning of each writing class and I pass out my 4th grade
writing prompts face down. I allow my students to free draw on the back of
their paper until the timer begins. Once the timer begins, my kiddos flip over
their 4th grade writing prompt paper of the day and begin writing. I call this
time “lightning write time”. My kiddos know that their pencil must be moving
this entire time. During this time, students are working to increase their
writing stamina and get their brains fired up for class. As a teacher, I love
using 4th grade writing prompts for warm up activities to help my students
grow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCroxzY9Aa-VY7_0lp8QjwWaU1GKAxmFRHOcx3dPeTx6j1CvUpsK_qkq6VdYXimffDFD6yd32ZABqi6ePfjQo3dXskOFOD0XVDt_zNsYG5SMlbAH4cw1-4UBon9eRfIMW6SMg5eqytnVj4/s2048/4th-grade-writing-prompts+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-grade-writing-prompts" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCroxzY9Aa-VY7_0lp8QjwWaU1GKAxmFRHOcx3dPeTx6j1CvUpsK_qkq6VdYXimffDFD6yd32ZABqi6ePfjQo3dXskOFOD0XVDt_zNsYG5SMlbAH4cw1-4UBon9eRfIMW6SMg5eqytnVj4/w640-h360/4th-grade-writing-prompts+3.jpg" title="4th-grade-writing-prompts" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Using 4th Grade Writing
Prompts for Targeted Skills Practice:</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The next way I use 4th
grade writing prompts in my classroom is to do targeted skills practice. This
work can be done both in class or as homework. I do this by instructing my
students on a target specific writing skill (for example, using dialogue).
Then, I will give them a 4th grade writing prompt (either printed or digitally)
and have them display the skill they were instructed on. For example, there is
a 4th grade writing prompt called, “Critter Conversation”. This prompt is all
about two animals chatting with each other and what they might say if they
could speak. I love using this 4th grade writing prompt for my kiddos to demonstrate
their understanding of dialogue writing!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="4th-grade-writing-prompts" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB6Onk2xUqesJHXYDFS3oFi46YcehcJMDgk4kyQQTCJm7dCa_a_7QbYcCi3ZCD22HO_yOLcHCp8zzNVWis_KZZeBMjQzY0MHL9bVBby-JqSp9RDZKu3uXOGkKk2KMveV0yHXvy459ac-EI/w426-h640/4th-grade-writing-prompts+6.jpg" title="4th-grade-writing-prompts" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Using 4th Grade Writing
Prompts for Exit Tickets:</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What teacher doesn’t love
another data point? Teachers are famous for our amazing data tracking skills!
One easy way I like to gather additional writing data points is through the use
of exit tickets. I will ask my students to complete a 4th grade writing prompt
and demonstrate their understanding of the skill taught that day. They will
complete their writing prompt at the end of class and drop it in my turn-in
bin. A bonus is that my kiddos really enjoy the writing prompt topics, so it
ends up being a fun way to end class. Using 4th grade writing prompts as an
exit ticket allows me to quickly do a formative assessment on my student's
understanding each day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRvEGFkm1s2dZd3Yv71iBXwVSZoHVURflTbjHJYh8mdJ5oJQpLFKYPwWbBiPpw3AlxiRdtHrvZQ358JG9825gWxI2ZIST81BWybXNapayF3kNWaewGS2jPQ4B2KdExCu22ZmIM_xT0sjS/s1800/4th-grade-writing-prompts+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-grade-writing-prompts" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRvEGFkm1s2dZd3Yv71iBXwVSZoHVURflTbjHJYh8mdJ5oJQpLFKYPwWbBiPpw3AlxiRdtHrvZQ358JG9825gWxI2ZIST81BWybXNapayF3kNWaewGS2jPQ4B2KdExCu22ZmIM_xT0sjS/w426-h640/4th-grade-writing-prompts+4.jpg" title="4th-grade-writing-prompts" width="426" /></a></div><br /></o:p></span><p></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Using 4th Grade Writing
Prompts for Morning Meeting</span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Why not start each day
by increasing your student's writing skills? Another way you can easily use 4th
grade writing prompts to improve your student's writing abilities, is to use
these in your morning meetings. Before students come in, quickly print and
place a 4th grade writing prompt paper on their desk (or assign a digital one
in Google Classroom). Build a routine that each morning, students will take a
few minutes before the day begins to answer the 4th grade writing prompt on
their desk. Once the day begins, you can incorporate this writing practice into
your Morning Meeting through the “share” component. Many “would you rather,”
4th grade writing prompts make fantastic shares/ discussions and creates easy
planning for you too. Talk about a win-win!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="4th-grade-writing-prompts" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq4Jsjb9JwjY-h3FeuEabQPmEWv0hinmWugBnkHSlt6jLOEhVXuya6NZZqTHXTVrNCeUdHGnCouYUhuxyLkTsXkPhfoKCt46dkJYioMT9guBtYUrtwi3qdK-QxmOwkXg8z2EnaUvd0gP16/w426-h640/4th-grade-writing-prompts+AUGUST+pic.jpg" title="4th-grade-writing-prompts" width="426" /></a></div><br /></o:p></span><p></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Using 4th Grade Writing
Prompts for Small Group Instruction</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Did you know you can
also incorporate 4th grade writing prompts into your small group instruction?
Because you absolutely can! Personally, I use 4th grade writing prompts in my
writing small group instruction to help aid my instruction. For example, if I
am teaching opinion or argumentative essays, I will pull a “would you rather,”
4th grade writing prompt, something my kiddos will have to take a stance on and
use that pre-made prompt to teach and practice a specific skill we are working
on for our essay writing (example, writing hooks or body paragraphs).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3C26U1LCla6VzKq9JSQS5_icYr3abgBTAbjPYpIKyouhwCwUufdxKvc9cwA6Ep-kiyUeJTXooIAtAoXlQJgZ8HAkkRbISz0NGlJKm_y0dMhSITYB4Bbe4qWM2GAJPDJBhD3XSxpsLIPYO/s2048/4th-grade-writing-prompts+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4th-grade-writing-prompts" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3C26U1LCla6VzKq9JSQS5_icYr3abgBTAbjPYpIKyouhwCwUufdxKvc9cwA6Ep-kiyUeJTXooIAtAoXlQJgZ8HAkkRbISz0NGlJKm_y0dMhSITYB4Bbe4qWM2GAJPDJBhD3XSxpsLIPYO/w640-h360/4th-grade-writing-prompts+1.jpg" title="4th-grade-writing-prompts" width="640" /></a></div><br /></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">4th grade writing
prompts can easily be incorporated into your classroom routine. Remember,
“practice makes permanent”. I want my kiddos to maintain their writing skills
that they have learned, so we practice constantly. We practice for our morning
meeting share, as writing warm-ups, and so much more! If you want to explore an
entire year worth of 4the grade writing prompts (digital and print) that I use
with my own students, you can click right <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399" target="_blank">HERE.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='464' height='385' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyeLY5o3jTcQetC5ntvHGgDf__99hf6vdUkZlrvCEGdHawO-97x8IsuCEdwltaWtkV4S5DPqmxhdRGWDM3uLw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; text-align: justify;">If you want to explore an entire year worth of 4the grade writing prompts (digital and print) that I use with my own students, you can click right </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Year-Long-DIGITAL-AND-PRINT-Writing-Prompts-5433399" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">HERE.</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjem3GxeW1btUNns61E2GU3H1k0drlG0RpfcyfWKNhN2KCTGTQ4y0o18fn9swiLGdmbqx5aSg6gUM8MJ-UrKUyxljJDBFjpOtGUZrdGY4KSPAovHJYcQeIE2GNREDfbgsmwVx8oGi2QxA_CGVT-3Xea5LYtl5wJ17wNDGVxzhSftTQW2HxW33c4GE4XyQ/s2700/year%20long%20writing%20prompts%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="writing-prompt-worksheets" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjem3GxeW1btUNns61E2GU3H1k0drlG0RpfcyfWKNhN2KCTGTQ4y0o18fn9swiLGdmbqx5aSg6gUM8MJ-UrKUyxljJDBFjpOtGUZrdGY4KSPAovHJYcQeIE2GNREDfbgsmwVx8oGi2QxA_CGVT-3Xea5LYtl5wJ17wNDGVxzhSftTQW2HxW33c4GE4XyQ/w640-h640/year%20long%20writing%20prompts%20cover.jpg" title="writing-prompt-worksheets" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are countless ways to use 4th grade writing prompts to increase the writing skills of our students. I hope you enjoyed reading my favorite tips for increasing student writing skills using writing prompts for 4th grade. Would you like to try a FREE sample of the no-prep writing prompts that I love so much? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you ready to rock your writing workshop this year? I've got your back and the tools you need with my epic new writing workshop FREEBIE! This writing workshop includes everything you need to get your writing block rocking, rolling, and make a massive impact with your students! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would love to share my writing workshop checklist, posters, and 5 printable + Google Classroom ready writing prompt resource with you so you can try out the tips you just read about! 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next holiday? I love Valentine’s Day and doing Valentine’s Day activities with
my elementary students! From the hearts and sweets to the themed activities,
there is so much fun to be had in the classroom. Read more to learn about my
absolute favorite Valentine’s Day activities to do with my elementary students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Valentine’s Day
Spelling Activities</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lbPT8p6XrD7I_KED5iW5l-3iXkiE_8HwnYsgp5Hwqk3V-XRpaMBGkCeinxBaWJdpxQ3A4QSwtSu0GJt5jnrCx2l2ZTn-AMC8rCvZxjxVFmXgRW_B5qSVcV4eCzFH9yW1IJaP0smaHaXLTzFpWNvAGl5BT62xPeSYek6zjYgxq-eLBWycQaxO-V1Odw/s2048/February%20spelling%20pic%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lbPT8p6XrD7I_KED5iW5l-3iXkiE_8HwnYsgp5Hwqk3V-XRpaMBGkCeinxBaWJdpxQ3A4QSwtSu0GJt5jnrCx2l2ZTn-AMC8rCvZxjxVFmXgRW_B5qSVcV4eCzFH9yW1IJaP0smaHaXLTzFpWNvAGl5BT62xPeSYek6zjYgxq-eLBWycQaxO-V1Odw/w640-h640/February%20spelling%20pic%201.jpg" title="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The first set of
Valentine’s Day activities that I love to do with my elementary students, are
Valentine’s Day themed spelling activities!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I teach my kiddos a new spelling pattern each week. These patterns are
wicked fun to practice through the use of my themed monthly spelling
activities. This month is all about hearts, Cupid, sweets, and valentines. My
kiddos love the spin and write activities the most. I love these Valentine’s
Day activities for elementary students because my kiddos get good spelling practice
and they are basically no prep for me as a teacher. Talk about a win-win! If you want to explore the Valentine's Day spelling activities that I do with my students, click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/February-Spelling-Activities-6334913">THIS LINK</a> now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyPyEs2qYI62r--Xz8RA4nm7dLDI-YNJeLjDkMabbe9PH9XdTF4beJH70NOmhsFGCRn5B5Mq96f6Sd5e9OhTGpifPloI63CYMufg2pCBoBNsbfWFtzpewnz4oUablZ61CwujwAjMq2ndx9p58Is2wGeRx3Zha5JIB0Rvo7LscljqoybMhFsUub_m7L-g/s2048/February%20spelling%20pic%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2047" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyPyEs2qYI62r--Xz8RA4nm7dLDI-YNJeLjDkMabbe9PH9XdTF4beJH70NOmhsFGCRn5B5Mq96f6Sd5e9OhTGpifPloI63CYMufg2pCBoBNsbfWFtzpewnz4oUablZ61CwujwAjMq2ndx9p58Is2wGeRx3Zha5JIB0Rvo7LscljqoybMhFsUub_m7L-g/w640-h640/February%20spelling%20pic%203.jpg" title="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Valentine’s Day Read
Alouds</span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQ4-M0Zs0nuap2YMaeZFdPS9279XTJOjwAmwm12RWleSMcgFQLytZnXwouNxoNR2ZZqh_qYpzviQ0ET1HD5wwJU6NYXu_QFzGOKvmOtIS8A0fBTO8PCvaZYd1eKifCtnydOwIOqBw9cYt/s2048/valentine%2527s-day-activities-for-elementary-students+6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQ4-M0Zs0nuap2YMaeZFdPS9279XTJOjwAmwm12RWleSMcgFQLytZnXwouNxoNR2ZZqh_qYpzviQ0ET1HD5wwJU6NYXu_QFzGOKvmOtIS8A0fBTO8PCvaZYd1eKifCtnydOwIOqBw9cYt/w640-h360/valentine%2527s-day-activities-for-elementary-students+6.jpg" title="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If you have been around
here a hot minute, you know I’m a sucker for all the read alouds. I love any
reason to gather my students on the carpet and share the joy of reading, and a
deep story discussion with them. Check out the list below of my favorite
Valentine’s Day read aloud books for elementary students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3t5jTZn">A Crankenstein Valentine</a> by Samantha Berger</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/36otMaU">Love Monster and the Last Chocolate</a> by Rachel Bright</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3alSp9h">Hedgehugs</a> by Steve Wilson</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tb83gg">I am Love a Book of Compassion</a> by Susan Verde</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3rba2PX">There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose</a> by Lucille Colandro</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3r5FtLh">Love From the Crayons</a> by Drew Daywalt</span></li></ul><p></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Digital Writing Prompts</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYWblTFmusY9Ri_pAJUfI-v6FP9aA9VhITu2BHzH9KZXdHDUgulJZMm8-DaNcyMGSC0ccMR2kv_y-7szkZ9ky8pDLNr9wYcVLVmb-Npm-mOfTsjSHqQwaUmSFPqUVpc1d1jWKO6pBRhmIY/s2048/valentine%2527s-day-activities-for-elementary-students+5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYWblTFmusY9Ri_pAJUfI-v6FP9aA9VhITu2BHzH9KZXdHDUgulJZMm8-DaNcyMGSC0ccMR2kv_y-7szkZ9ky8pDLNr9wYcVLVmb-Npm-mOfTsjSHqQwaUmSFPqUVpc1d1jWKO6pBRhmIY/w640-h360/valentine%2527s-day-activities-for-elementary-students+5.jpg" title="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Digital writing prompts
are my jam! Ever since distance learning took place last March, digital writing
prompts have become a favorite of mine. I love the bright colors and engaging
prompts for my kiddos, and I love the no prep for me! My favorite way to use
digital writing prompts is to assign a prompt to my students and ask them to
demonstrate their knowledge of a new skill I have taught them within the prompt
(ex. similes, personification, etc.…). These cute and no prep themed prompts
are definitely on my list for top Valentine’s Day activities for elementary
students. If you want to check out the digital Valentine's Day writing prompts that I use with my students, click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/February-Digital-Writing-Prompts-Distance-Learning-Google-Classroom-5816059" target="_blank">THIS LINK</a> now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Freebie</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsbFPY5WKcbDZ_eswnJvw4Gu0fqW_rO8i0xLf8NWfs6ZkSrsyV_Kxm-G6ZvLptavYuJv_m8x5ffTtKKyStYgjru5tkMPysrC6UxrYj18-xztGzKcsx97FQeW0IqdjxvZjdcoF3rfycAq-W/s1800/valentine%2527s-day-activities-for-elementary-students+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsbFPY5WKcbDZ_eswnJvw4Gu0fqW_rO8i0xLf8NWfs6ZkSrsyV_Kxm-G6ZvLptavYuJv_m8x5ffTtKKyStYgjru5tkMPysrC6UxrYj18-xztGzKcsx97FQeW0IqdjxvZjdcoF3rfycAq-W/w426-h640/valentine%2527s-day-activities-for-elementary-students+3.jpg" title="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBQ4aKaNLzn3hIuCJQhoek2hvLEOLhKpcdtJpJUe7UMQOQlcNsu-6jAJi8G6X6wYtdsN0b41gTag6Jycq1_jBw1-sqm0q2TU-0BzgyT4fZMK8T3H37o9lHNp4BuyXThYB_gz_hDTUUCr2/s2048/valentines+day+math+freebie+opt+in+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" border="0" data-original-height="1571" data-original-width="2048" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBQ4aKaNLzn3hIuCJQhoek2hvLEOLhKpcdtJpJUe7UMQOQlcNsu-6jAJi8G6X6wYtdsN0b41gTag6Jycq1_jBw1-sqm0q2TU-0BzgyT4fZMK8T3H37o9lHNp4BuyXThYB_gz_hDTUUCr2/w640-h490/valentines+day+math+freebie+opt+in+2.jpg" title="Valentine's-day-activities-for-elementary-students" width="640" /></a></div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://elementary-teacher-toolkit.mykajabi.com/valentines-day-freebie-opt-in" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuRIVH2UqTc1M0TcbBezmcPLG2Ey3Eemxf8ESc9_1MGC2n9Obrw_bIpW5VQbt-PlY9CfTVxgFtRj_JFRIzKGZMWpHVMSPD7wtde7F_RVwDAgJ5kYGUuG5h8o32X79eEsPvinh3mw8efBT/w640-h128/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Tails of Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639016233566052546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474267645394433719.post-75312648812563631112020-12-26T18:46:00.007-08:002022-02-26T14:09:41.040-08:003 Things Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Say Yes to in the New Year<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I think we can all
agree that this year has been rough. Actually, this year has been an insane
roller coaster ride of emotions and increased workloads. However, the year is
finally almost over, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hallelujah</i>, and
a new year is on the horizon. How can we make sure that next year is better
than this one was? No, how can we make sure it is our best year yet? Well
teacher friends the answer is simple, we need to start saying yes. Yes? Yes!
Let’s say yes to self-care and boundaries. Let’s say yes to taking care of
ourselves. Read more below about my top three things that teachers need to say
yes to in the New Year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Say Yes to Self-Care</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“You can’t pour from an
empty cup.” Self-care is so important! You can’t help anyone else if you cannot
first help yourself. We all know that, why else do they tell you to put the
oxygen mask on yourself first on airplanes? So, my question is, if we know self-care
is so critical, why do we push it off? <i>I don’t have time. I don’t need
to.</i> The excuses go on and on. Stop powering through, stop putting so
much extra pressure on yourself. We have a million and one things we are
required to do as teachers. Why add extra stress of getting papers graded like
lightning, or having lessons planned a month in advance? Start removing
unnecessary stress and allow yourself time to breathe, rest, and recover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make this year<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the first year you truly adopt a <i>self-care
is alright </i>mindset.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Say Yes to Boundaries</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Did you know that is ok
to say no? Honestly, it is not only ok but it is necessary. You are not a bad
teacher if you do not take school work home each night. You are not a bad
teacher if you do not work weekends. You are not a bad teacher if you stop
answering parent emails at 4:00 PM every night. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO IT ALL,
ALL OF THE TIME. In most other occupations, when you leave work for the day,
you leave your work behind with you. Teachers everywhere put in an overwhelming
about of unpaid after work hours just to try and stay afloat and feel like we
are doing the best we can. Please listen to me; you are doing an amazing job.
You don’t need to make your work all that you ever do. Set boundaries for
yourself so that you can have a work home life balance. You need designated
time to close your plan book, turn off your computer, and live your life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkY_2lDVVjfzWU5agCg2aaTHfdyMYtbEYCQJsV_F5mLSCDeV2_VOna-z3iwkBHTnaryyEp5d7IbnCtqaxu97BWZjuz5Gm8pEPiqKA7GQu1XoP2YJ6nLY_HvTPZz-ZVTKHn6H0PeNN_e6P/s2048/elementary+teacher+opt+in+blog+pic1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="elementary-teacher" border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkY_2lDVVjfzWU5agCg2aaTHfdyMYtbEYCQJsV_F5mLSCDeV2_VOna-z3iwkBHTnaryyEp5d7IbnCtqaxu97BWZjuz5Gm8pEPiqKA7GQu1XoP2YJ6nLY_HvTPZz-ZVTKHn6H0PeNN_e6P/w640-h360/elementary+teacher+opt+in+blog+pic1.jpg" title="elementary-teacher" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Say Yes to a Work/
Home-life Balance</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I love memes. There is
one meme that always hits me a little too close to home. It is a picture of a
teacher with countless hats on her head, each one labeled with a different
responsibility she bares. From parent communication expert to epic lesson creator,
we teachers juggle it all. It’s no wonder most teachers have a horrible work/
home life balance. Well, it’s time we start taking back our weekends friends.
Take a few of those hats, those extra responsibilities, off of your plate. Ask
for help. Don’t spend countless hours at night scrolling Pinterest for the
perfect lesson. Stop researching classroom management techniques on your
weekends so you can survive your workweek. Ask for help. Find engaging
supplemental resources, lesson plans, and more, and put it in your budget for
next year. Request a professional development course for techniques and
strategies you want to be more knowledgeable in. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So friends, let’s make
this year the year of yes. We can and we will make the New Year a stellar one!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">Want to explore my resources just for teachers? </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tails-Of-Teaching/Category/-Teacher-Resources-442074" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">CLICK HERE NOW!</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></p>
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